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meeting of the board of trustees uh roll call uh dennis bender here christopher nice here maria okara and wilson soap and rick i'm here dennis lead us in the fish please i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you all right kylie we have any public comments prior to closed session we do not okay thank you all right so we're going to be going into closed session but first i have we have seven items that we're going to be discussing and the first item is conference of litigation government code section 549 56.9 current litigation five cases 1907-172-201183-2022-956-202-3366 three six two one one one three o three in government code section five nine five four point five and five four nine five six point nine d subsection 2 and e1 anticipated litigation 12 cases 1218 1907 2020 2105 2020 2107 2021 2206 2021 2208 2021 2209 21 22 10 20 21 22 11 20 21 22 12 and 20 21 22 13.

four conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad employee organization alpha unified teachers association item five conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad employee organization california school employees association item six or number six conference with real property negotiator government code five four five 56.8 negotiation parties matthew schulenberg apple valley unified school and item 7 superintendent evaluation uh with that i'll ask for a motion to go into closed session i have a motion by maria a second by dennis all in favor aye any opposed hearing them that'll be the order so we will be in close session and we'll be back at 7 00 pm thank you okay welcome everyone we're going to reopen this apple valley unified school district board of trustees meeting open at 7 pm on may 19th and welcome so before we begin i'd like to just so we have a moment of silence uh we had a barb ideal was a long time teacher in apple valley and retired in 2016 and unfortunately passed away so in honor of her we just would like a quick moment of silence so if you could please join me thank you thank you very much all right at this time we move on to our reports from student representatives and first up is high desert premier academy angelique danielle if you'd come please join us up at the podium thank you foreign [Music] we are excited to be here tonight and share some of the amazing activities and accomplishments from this school year and sometimes we are looking forward hppa has made a strong effort to increase attendance and lower suspension we have been successful making a slight danger this weekend participated in the first semester and we have had less than 10 submissions for the whole school year we are also proud to announce that we will have a total of 485 graduates where the 2021 submissions for school year as we end the school year validation is preparing for the next 20 [Music] and systems to years all of our colleagues succeed hdpa encourages us to learn through experiences with that being said next school year our hour will be visiting the san diego zoo within general tolerance and participating in two stem field trips one at ifly and one at top off in ontario not only will we have experience off campus but we will have three new additional programs on campus we will have an e-sports team an sel building class and a new wellness center to show how proud our student population is the five desert clear academy and the community and relationship we have on campus mr smith and ms marx here would like you to enjoy this video of the various students on campus and their experiences this week here are some of our highlights of this year by high of [Music] we are expecting a lot of graduates at the national community graduation ceremony on may 24th one of the hd navy's biggest ever let's hear some of our students plan for after graduation uh i think i'm probably going to enroll into the bbc for like two years [Music] um [Music] have a great summer and see you next year thank you for the presentation up next is granite hills uh ella hausmann never gonna forget the nerman nervous feelings of in my arms and hands when i come up here good evening board members superintendent nelson and attendees normally i make a report about the monthly activities and events and give you a student perspective on campus life for this speech my last one here i want to make a report about my high school experience at granite hills high first coming to granite hills high my freshman year i was not only new to the school but new to the district there was no doubt it was very different from a charter school but it only urged me to further my exploration around campus i tried out for soccer cheer track and made teams you may be thinking what else could i possibly do well the next year i went straight into asb and became sophomore vice president an emcee for the pep rallies and i may or may not have been in the cougar suit a couple of times that year we stayed in spring break all the way to august we never really came back in person until later in my junior year and even then we saw a few students who attended at the time we had no idea the kind of impact it would create on us for me during that time i got a job pushed through ap classes became junior president and continued soccer and cheer in the spring as well as athletic training soon enough senior year came right around the corner like racing horses to the finish line at that point i was a senior and still sort of felt like a sophomore but with a deadly case of senioritis going back to school my senior year i admit i kept expectations low because we didn't know if in the next month we would need to shut down once again but we didn't and all we could do was push forward and make things as normal as possible we made it happen with a lot of events and activities at school and saw the most participation in years the campus i once saw a tumbleweed pass through became full of posters for events and friends grouping up to attend them i'm now confident in my favorite memory at granite hills high school and that it was leading my seniors through their final cougar chants at the end of the year pep rally it still astonishes me that the class before the pandemic left nothing but cricket noises in the stands of our pep rallies being that the freshman had been louder than us and now as seniors after the epidemic we delivered roaring thunder filling the gym it confirms to me that the challenges we face these previous years did not stop us from making the most of our senior year and that the classes ahead will follow our attitudes and strive for even better i am overjoyed to announce the new governing council president next year i am confident to say that she will lead this class with the best in favor and most spirit i can't wait to see what she does please welcome ashley guzman [Applause] good evening board members superintendent nelson and attendees um ella has just introduced me but once again i am ashley guzman your 2022-2023 school year granite hills governing council president i want to start off by mentioning how incredibly proud i am to be here in front of you all as the representative of my school in order to give this speech and although it will be brief i hope it will be sorry i hope it will be inspiring now as i begin i would like to thank ella for all she has done as president this past year she has done an amazing job and has given me many great words of advice which i will forever cherish and remember i am aware as i step into this position i am aware of the responsibility it comes with yet i assure you i am ready for it i have begun plenty many events and as and activities for the upcoming school year which i am hoping will bring more spirit from the student body and make our learning place a more enjoyable and welcoming place to be seeing as i have already took part in planning many of our school events and activities in these past three years i am excited that we will have more freedom and how we will be able to execute many of our plans that we have in store now that many of the coveted regulations are being lifted i can assure you that this upcoming school year is going to be remarkable i don't want to give too much away so with that being said thank you board members and superintendent nelson and thank you to the all the wonderful attendees that came in order to support and or i have at least listened to me that's all i have for today but always remember maroon and gray leads the way [Applause] all right daniel you're up half belly hi daniel breanna good evening steam board members and superintendent nelson my name is daniel orianna and this is my last report as the 2021-2032 apple valley high school representative it has been an honor updating you on activities supporting events and recognitions from our school the last few weeks of may have been spent honoring the hard work our seniors have done these last four years we held their senior awards night may 11th and have also held a special banquet for our cde programs ffa and multiple club organizations tomorrow seniors will say their goodbye to appleby high school during their last school day and bid their final farewell on the graduation ceremony this may this wednesday may 25th i would like to thank each and every one of you for always taking student opinion into consideration and having to make difficult choices regarding our education the school year started with high anxiety and fear of the unknown but thanks to your leadership and the persis perseverance of students parents and teachers alike we were able to make the school year as normal as possible from the bottom of my heart i thank you for making sure i had a normal senior year now i would like to introduce the 2022-2023 appleby high school representative i've had the pleasure of seeing this person grow into the confident leader she is today and i'm sure that she will shine as apovali high school's next asb line president please welcome cheyenne valentine good evening board members and attendees i'm next year's asb line president cheyenne valentine and after the last few years of uncertainty uncertainty um i'm very excited to see what next year has in store for our community and for just avhs um i'm very excited to work with every single one of you and see what happens thank you daniel go ahead and stay up there ella ella ella i had not head up to the podium one final time actually this means the board has to get up and stand here now so so tonight we're going to start with granite hills high school because alphabetically they're always second and they got to present first tonight so come up here ella so we're going to give a little bit about ella's background she's graduating with a 3.8 gpa ella has spent three years in asb completed the sports therapy pathway at granite hills high school this year she serves as governing council president and made second team all-league in soccer as a member of the sideline cheer team she led students and apple and was the lead athletic trainer in the fall ella will be attending cal state san bernardino and majoring in kinesiology with plans of becoming a physical therapist i can't imagine anything better than this person doing physical therapy for somebody in need she will care for them and always has a smile on her face so i told her my most um memorable time this year was showing up at granite during lunchtime she's on the stage doing a rally and she comes off the stage and comes over and gives me a hug and as the superintendent at a high school that doesn't happen unless it's your own kid and by the way my own kid didn't do it until my second kid did so ella i appreciate you we are so excited that you're moving on to um cal state san bernardino which is my alma mater and so you're going to do great things and i know this so if you'll shake hands i've got a little something for you [Applause] there's an expectation here class of 2022 class of 2026.

there are two back-to-back consecutive track meets on the 24th and 25th at clifton stadium both them start 3 30. baseball is playing against t-neck at t-neck on the 23rd 4-15 the team also deserves special recognition for their best season in 27 years reaching the county final game it's a great feat for them boys volleyball is playing in the state tournament against north bergen at home on 23rd starting at 4 p.m and flag football is playing against jfk at jfk and patterson at six o'clock on the 23rd the last item is the longest text i've written for anything this year but i think it's worthwhile so as the weather warms up again jack starts to go back in the closet i feel it's finally an appropriate time to acknowledge clifton students primarily female clifton students and their issues regarding the clifton high school dress code argument service school dress codes are not a uniquely clifton issue by any means these are struggles between societal forces the clothing industry and the school environment that are incredibly difficult to juggle unfortunately the school ends up being the one that's a spin obvious plates at the same time strives to try to strike a balance and no scenario can everyone be pleased with the dress code i cannot fathom a solution to this however i still think it's imperative to voice these concerns here in this venue repeatedly stated in the chs student school dress code are statements that health and safety are the number one factor in form in informing the dress code quote of paramount importance in this dress code are the health and safety of the students and the avoidance of disorder and or distractions the educational process which is from a section of the state philosophy quote in addition the code is designed to encourage a mode of dressing grooming that is conducive to establishing a climate of discipline order teaching and an effective learning environment which ends the stated purpose many of the items under the clothing section are rational following i believe are and agree are rational ideas these include number four which is that jewelry posing as a potential danger is not permitted one a to maintain an environment conducive to learning scooper is not allowed items five a through f which include prohibiting clothing that references violence alcohol drugs sexual connotation and the like none of the items listed in the dress code would affect the way i come to school dressed i know very few male students who feel that dress code is imposing on them as is the case in any other school district is the female population that feels the weight of these regulations the most even since middle school i've heard of and witnessed countless times female students exasperated because they were dress coded for their shoulder straps not being three fingers wide or because their shorts and mid thigh these are specific guidelines on the dress code for apparel that easily and often does spark debate it wasn't until this year that i heard a final i heard a student finally say these factors are out of their control because all they can find they go shopping i absolutely believe them if you walk through wilbur you're on state plaza i challenge you to find a pair of women's shorts and a mid-thigh it's just not a contemporary style it will be difficult and will continue to be difficult for you to come what finally convinced me to talk about the subject was when a teacher had to warn the point the female students in the classroom that dress code checks would become much more frequent they rightfully so immediately voice their frustrations i'd like to end by quoting what a classmate of mine said about the dress code so much shame in being dress coded or being told that you're distracting others because of your body or having that insinuated it feels like us girls are doing something wrong when all we're showing is a midriff or if we're wearing shorts that are inch above our fingertips or wearing spaghetti straps and showing our shoulders i get it there's a line you have to draw the line should not blame a woman or make her feel shameful about her body and what she chooses to put on it these sentiments are echoed by young women in schools cross country this is an issue much larger than clifton and i'm not expecting a perfect solution by any means to come out of this discussion however it's still an issue in clifton and still should be openly discussed during clifton thank you very much for your time and have a good night uh andrew before you leave um andrew has done a tremendous job throughout this year he has a few more meetings left with us but i have been told that there is no one as of now replacing him so if there's any students out there that are interested please see andrew and he will steer you in the right direction to get that done so thank you andrew any of our student award recipients if you would like to stay for the meeting you're more than welcome but if you'd like to leave at this time that would be acceptable as well all right we can move on to adoption of the minutes of the meeting of may 5th so moved by mr abadrava second second by mr awad discussion mr president yes mr daley um i just want to make as i understand the minutes uh the the essence of the resolution is in the minutes that's from 13 down to further resolved at the bottom correct yeah on on the in the minutes it has adoption of the budget and it this essence of the budget resolution is in 13 from where it's 13 item adoption of the budget down to the last further resolved um yes i mean i can get it open but it it we show where there was the original resolution and then the the know because i know there's a lot of discussion before that and which is noted which is proper and i just want to make sure that's the essence of that yes yes sir thank you [Music] okay seeing none other comments uh roll call please mr abadraba yes mr awad yes miss bassford yes miss beltram yes mr kanova yes dr danny abstain mr paris yes vice president daley yes yes motion carries okay now dr robitosi will give the superintendent's report thank you mr president good evening commissioners good evening members of the public faculty staff students present here tonight just want to review a couple of things and a couple reminders for the board and for the community tonight was the first of our comprehensive physical education and health virtual parent presentations as this board is well aware the new health standards have been a little controversial they've been discussed here at our board meetings and tonight was the first virtual session uh that we had there will be another session on monday night uh may 23rd from 6 to 7 30 p.m virtually and that's for grades k-5 just like tonight was and there will be another uh session for grades 6 through 12 on tuesday night may 24th from 6 to 7 30.

yeah can't substitute teach yet so congratulations to those students that's a wonderful accomplishment and uh mr president that completes my report tonight there is an item on the uh personnel agenda the appointment of our um of our unclassified staff that i just need to pull for a second to go over one thing before we vote on it later so i'll pull that and we'll go into executive and vote on it later thank you so i don't have any announcements tonight but i would like um last meeting i know that the public waited around a long time to speak so i'd like to have our public recognition now so any members of the public sam i see you have some in the waiting room this portion of the meeting is open to the residents and non-residents of clifton for the purpose of addressing any subject matter pertinent to and are directly related to the operation of the clifton public school district residents and non-residents are requested in person to sign the register provided for this purpose all speakers are asked to state their names municipality in which they live in a subject matter before speaking comments are limited to five minutes per person issues raised by members of the public may or may not be responded to by the board all comments will be considered and a response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate your questions may or may not be answered by board members the board asked that members of the public be courteous and mindful of the rights of other individuals when speaking specifically comments regarding students and employees of the board are discouraged and will not be responded to by the board students and employees have specific legal rights afforded by the laws of the state of new jersey the board bears no responsibility nor will it be liable for any comments made by members of the public members of the public should consider their comments in light of the legal rights of those affected or identified in their comments and be aware that they are legally responsible and liable for their comments sam if you have anyone ready on uh on virtual take that first hi my name is [Music] is [Music] to have like a discussion a very sober discussion with questions and answers and things like that before that see what the strategy is what's going on about it thank you hi uh we have anna anna by drone hello anna can you hear me can you hear us anna yes would you like to make a public comment would you like to address the board anna i'm just cooking something nice hold on did you she mute she's muted did you want to make a comment nope okay i guess that portion's over oh wait a minute one more thank you good night thank you uh uh kathleen lepay hi kathleen lee hi did you you're did you want to make a comment hello hello guys hello hi you're okay okay this is the public portion of the clifton board of ed meeting are you making a comment yes yes um i would like to know when um would we be able to talk about you know the new policies the board of education is implemented for next year about the sex education class uh sir could you please state your name my name is juana bray and i live in clifton thank you yeah this is the time sir that you would address the board with any concerns you have no my question is instead of uh not instead of i know that we can talk about it is there more um a specific day and time that you guys will be able to sit down and talk about it or is it during this time right now well there are a recession happening yeah monday and tuesday night uh there are sessions being held you should have gotten information from your schools on that so if you'd like to if you'd like to be part of that monday and tuesday night of next week there will be um there will be a um hearing held on both of those where the presentation will be made and they'll have questions and answers as well so if you uh if you didn't get information if you could check with your uh uh school what school does your uh child go to um school number one okay so if you uh uh check with miss uh romeo the principal she'll be gladly to tell you uh all about the where those events are happening next monday and tuesday okay no problem thank you appreciate it thank you that's it okay all right motion to close the virtual motion all right mr roberto second mr wad okay now the uh in person anyone here wishing to address the board please come up to the microphone good evening everybody public border of educational members my name is orienta magaly fernandez and i am a new jersey licensed mt i work in pain management stress reduction i'm a mother of two students from clifton a special needs we have our own story first and anything with all the education i thank all of you to give us the opportunity to to talk in a good hour two thursdays ago i stay until 10 35 the rest of the persons spoke at 11 11 and i believe we deserve respect if you invite us to meeting you should give us the time to talk early i was going home because my children were hungry texting me at 10 35 and i couldn't talk two thursdays ago i listened to ladies here saying that anal sex was an option for not getting pregnant i am asking myself and any of you you would like that your children get this type of lessons your grandkids your kids in the school i have my own story and maybe mr phobes that knows me good can't tell you who i am the things that i leave personally and i can tell you as a matter that i'm not agree with this type of education i grew up with high moral values and i encourage all the parents in youtube in the channel to come all of you are invited to come and sit down this is almost empty we have ladies and gentlemen here that can answer our questions we need to be clear you need to clarify us why we need to talk about sex on a different way to our kids sexual life is important but some topics are horrible i don't want that my 14 year old daughter knows about anal sex i don't want it as well as many parents and i'm working on social media against this i don't like that i'm sincere and maggie fernandez known in my field and i am in facebook writing against this because i have my own story i don't want my daughter learning about sex coming saying that she's bisexual all telling listening kids talking about sex with disrespect we need to be here to show moral values moral values that each one of you get at home is what each one of you were raised different but with moral values that's why you're sitting here because you were educated you never went to school to learn about anal sex or oral sex my apologies if my words are strong but this is what i want to say since two weeks thank you very much [Applause] hi my name is monique shaw i live in clifton good afternoon yeah good evening um so i did not go to school in america i went to school in a different country i had a european-based curriculum and i lived in the caribbean and i am it's very interesting to me to see parents react to the education of their children in this manner i learned about sex in school my teachers did not do any of the ridiculous things that i hear parents talking about discussing various sexual positions and anal sex oral that is not what an sexual education system is about that's not what is taught what is taught however is young girls learning about their bodies how it changes young boys learning how their body changes and how it responds to women and how and they should take care of themselves how to approach it i learned what a yeast infection was as a young woman i learned what a period was i learned the different options for those things i learned the correct name of body parts that i already owned and body parts that my dad and brothers and all the other men i just i find it ridiculous that parents don't want their children to be able to access valuable information parents talk about i don't want my kids coming home saying they're gay what about the kid that has two dads that wants to know that his family is just as recognized as the family that has a mom and a dad what about the kid that didn't come from a pregnant belly the kid that was made that a family went out of their way to go and adopt or to go through a process to bring that child and they have to tell the child that story does that child not deserve to learn this is how families are made as well i understand that in america and this is just from an immigrant perspective that there is like this it's like you sexualize things but let's not talk about it it's very confusing for other people that look in just fyi very is but there is this elephant in the room where you don't want to talk about sex among your children but you guys have teen pregnancies up the gazoo in america you have sexual abuse that goes unrecognized children do not have the vocabulary to discuss these things parents are afraid of what their kids could be exposed to how about be welcoming of what your child might be able to tell you okay there is a lot of fear i get it in the unknown a lot of you grew up in a different era where this information was seen as bad or you were seen as dirty for having access to it or that this information was going to taint you in some way but your reality and your world is not the same that your children are going to grow up in you have to prepare them for the world you are leaving behind and while your world you did not need these terms of transgender and sexual orientation and gay and let you didn't need those vocabularies because it wasn't accessible your children will be at a significant disadvantage coming from a small town in new jersey that didn't teach them anything about the outside world when they try to go out there and make it in a big city you think someone can from clifton after not getting a proper sexual education and being exposed can really navigate certain nuances making it in a amsterdam beach i think they'd show up there and like you think they'd be okay in the culture shock of the rest of the world if their entire life they weren't even told what else might be out there okay thank you you as parents will still have the ability to navigate these discussions that's what the school is there for it starts the discussion it gives them the information and you can help them understand and navigate it do not put your kids at a disadvantage do not take this away from them and don't live in fear of new things okay thank you very much thank you good evening everybody mark princiac holly street clifton first of all i want to congratulate the uh the students that graduated with an associate's degree tremendous accomplishment my prediction is that all of them will be very successful in their futures in terms of their career i also want to commend mr abu drabo and anyone else responsible for rescheduling these uh presentations regarding the comprehensive health that was presented today they're originally scheduled to overlap with this meeting so it's kind of frustrating to see that when you're trying to see these things so and uh thank you to the administration for rescheduling that moreover while i was listening to the k-5 presentation today regarding comprehensive the health started off by describing teens and sex in a k through 5 lesson what's the most common buzz word i heard misinformation yet the communications that we receive from this district that are commonly sent to parents is comprehensive health yet sex education was described in the lesson so i'm asking you mention all this misinformation why don't you describe the verbatim of the sex education standards with the upgrades with the 2020s and jsls standards more some parents change the world by fighting for their kids what did one parent do she never gave up she gathered her family and friends in an amazing group group parent effort they had 40 plus show up to speak on behalf of the kids there were so many speakers that the board of ed meeting lasted until 1am and some schools sadly they claim that that is the law that they have to incorporate into the 2020 sex standards into the curriculum but that's not true schools write the curriculum not the department of education and the board of ed won't go to jail for saying no it's not like how governor murphy was threatening the school administration over their masking policies what is the penalty from the state if the district does not adopt these standards minus four points on their nj sac score so i'm asking this board if someone can explain what a m what a four-point reduction from our school's nj sac score if the new curriculum is rejected to our board of ed commissioners i urge you to have some courage like some other districts i have with me a suggested resolution created created by a wonderful attorney who i believe has a similar similar talent stack to that of our wonderful board attorney the work has before has been performed please consider using it whereas the clifton board of education intends not to adopt the curriculum set forth by the new jersey student learning standards covered under comprehensive health and physical energy physical education 2020 nj sls-chpe whereas should we allow the proposed state curriculum to move forward the impact it would have in classrooms would allow the school district to demonstrate topics inclusive of sexual activity such as oral sex anal sex masturbation and gender to be discussed with children at various grade levels to comply with the curriculum standards whereas the standards set forth are extreme and age inappropriate and was adopted by the state board of education therefore be it resolved by the board of education of the city of clifton shall not adopt the curriculum set forth by the new jersey student learning standards covered under comprehensive health and physical education 2020 nj sls-chpe thank you everybody for your time have a good night everybody and god bless america good night everybody [Applause] good evening tovah felder i live here just piggybacking quickly off of andrew's comments i propose that instead of disciplining mainly girls because they are distracting we discipline the kids who are too distracted to do their schoolwork because of a pair of shoulders i came to talk about the not really new health education standards from the perspective of someone who understands deeply how important it is that we do talk about such inclusion stuff as some background one of my aunts is a lesbian for as long as i can remember i've known that aunt linda and aunt donna were life partners the same way my mom and dad were and because this was always how it was because nobody in my family ever talked about them like it was some kind of shameful secret i never thought of it as anything noteworthy that is why this kind of inclusive education why these updated standards are so vitally important when kids understand that there are all of these different ways of existing and of being a family then it isn't shocking or scandalous when they meet their first openly gay kid or a kid with two moms when they understand that gender isn't necessarily fixed with their genitals then maybe it won't feel like their world is imploding if they realize someday that the gender they were assigned just doesn't feel right for the last 12 years i've been working in a religious school and tutoring privately one of my long time students a few months shy of 13 is preparing to become a bar mitzvah i'll call him josh i've known josh since he was in second grade and in my class for the first time back then he would often come to class with sparkly nail polish and we would compare our painted fingernails we still do that he's just about the sweetest most gentle spirit i've ever met and he knows that i'm talking about him tonight he thanked me for it actually that sweet kid is having an awful year josh lives in a nearby town with a good school district known for their high test scores and their accomplished students as a brown-skinned jew and young gay person who is proud of who he is and who doesn't hide his love of rainbows and the color pink he has not felt welcomed or supported in his district in this good school josh has been bullied by some who have been raised to see him as deviant or somehow unacceptable i'll remind you he's 12 he's a child things have been so hard for him that his family is taking the enormous financial hit of moving him to an expensive private school where he can be himself in an accepting supportive environment and despite this josh is actually pretty lucky most families simply can't afford to make that kind of sacrifice and many kids don't have supportive families for a whole lot of lgbtq kids they just have to suffer through it until they graduate or drop out some like a clifton teen my son knows are literally thrown out of their homes once they tell their parents that they're gay or trans it's really hard to be any kind of a minority and not get to see yourself in the culture around you on tv in songs in the books you read in school as a jew growing up i struggled with this a lot i was one of only three in my whole elementary school and except for a token hanukkah song in december i never saw examples of my own family in the school curriculum my son has struggled with it too even here in a city that is brimming with diversity he's had to deal with kids throwing him the nazi salute and making jokes about burning him up in an oven i'll add that administration was really quick to act when i went to them but it doesn't erase what happened now try to imagine being the child of a gay couple or of actually being a gay child or a trans child or non-binary child imagine that the only time you hear about people like you is when parents get up and tell the entire community that they don't want their kids to even learn that you exist imagine how painful that must be i know that some of you may think that for our youngest students there's just no need to discuss these things they'll learn about it later the trouble is when you fail to acknowledge an entire segment of the population you are implicitly stating that there's something wrong with those people something that makes even talking about them unacceptable that is a terrible harmful message one final thought if you find yourself on the same side of an argument with someone who casually throws around a nazi salute as happened at the last meeting it might be time to really ask yourself if you're on the right side [Applause] anyone else wish to address the board hi good evening pardon i came from work first of all i think it's amazing that you have students that have their associate's degree um definitely going to be taking this back my name is barbara holstein and i am from montague township i am speaking here as a citizen and not as a board member of montague township all right this is a very very nice boardroom certainly uh a lot more than what we have in our gymnasium but i appreciate it i attended a board meeting in gardewood on tuesday and i saw them um one of their board members came to the table presented a resolution got a second on the resolution put it up for discussion and they now have a resolution opposing the adoption of the curriculum that would be in recognition of the state standards interestingly enough the board of at the presentation by the superintendent that night kind of really helped clarify exactly why it's essential that any school district who is interested in protecting all children so while the comments from the ladies here regarding certain groups of children they're very selective to certain groups your job is to protect all children my problem with lbgtqhi whatever is it's missing the h it's missing heterosexual it doesn't address the largest number of population i sat quietly and listened to you i expect you to do the same for me so my point is is that any resolution any decision the due diligence of a school board member is for the whole district no one's coming at you and saying take away your 2019-year 2016 health and physical education curriculum which does have most of the content of the new ones this comes directly from the website so anybody who says that this curriculum is not teaching things isn't reading the actual website from the department of education by the end of grade two list medically accurate names for body parts including genitals i will tell you right now the kindergarten class that i work in they are not capable of doing this because they don't need it they need to learn how to hold a pencil they need to know how to follow directions and their teacher they need to learn how to sit in their seat most of the kids in this classroom actually come from guatemala and honduras they've never even seen the inside of a school building the last thing we need to do is be teaching them how to label genitalia okay now when when then is that appropriate if a child has an issue the child is a teacher notices this i notice it i go to my teacher i work with and i say look you know what i've noticed a couple little things going on here and you know what they do they get the guidance counselor involved they get the people involved to take the child in private and discuss things in private that aren't supposed to be discussed in front of their older other children who don't need to know that private business the second thing down here discuss a range of ways people explain their express their gender and how gender stereotypes may limit behavior those kids that just graduated with those associates degrees they graduated without having this and they all did successfully well new jersey state learning standards describe what students should know and be able to do with the completion of the grades these standards provide the foundation for school district curricula that is used by teachers in the development of their daily lesson plans curricula lesson plans everything in here is going to be filtered down and yes in the classroom the teacher gets a discretion there's not one of you that sits in a classroom not even the superintendent so whatever is said is said directly to those kids and whatever you ask them to do in your direction and your due diligence as a board when you go to adopt this or don't adopt it is going to affect the children in the classroom how that teacher wants to perceive it you have to set the message straight my board's going to be taking this into consideration i think you guys know where i sit on this topic this is absolutely this doesn't belong in our schools what we need to keep doing is what we have been doing being inclusive showing tolerance showing acceptance and continuing to do what we've already been doing we don't need to go to the extremes to keep doing and we already have harassment intimidation and bullying policies we already have all that i wanted to go back to you know no thank you my daughter's pediatrician is gay my daughter's 20 will be 22 in june she's a united states marine when she was 17 she came back from high school she was high school guess what i want to go see dr so-and-so because that's what she wanted to go and and talk to him before she left she went there so she was two years old didn't matter he was gay and there was no rainbows flying in his office he just practiced medicine that's what we need to focus on hi there josh shaw i live in clifton i have two boys in the in school five one's a kindergartner the other's in third grade um my kindergartener does know what a penis is and he knows what a vagina is and he knows how children how babies are made he's been exposed to it because we thought it was important and because he asked the other reason he needs to know what a penis is is because he pees all over the place all right so there's you can't the kids already know what are going what's going on they have access to youtube and honestly we moved to clifton seven years ago and we had the up we had the choice to move a lot of different places we looked at houses and 30 mile radius from harlem where we lived and we chose clifton because of the diversity we literally chose clifton because of the diversity i support the sexual education uh curriculum that's coming into play and honestly if the board were to block something like that i would sell my house and i would take my children out of this school system i would take them out and i think you'd have more people do that as well if children are not getting the education they deserve parents have the opportunity to take their children out of this i believe right they can take their children out but i think it would be detrimental to the entire community if you didn't teach children what was happening they also need to learn to respect each other my third grader we dealt with it today with the guidance counselor and the principal but yesterday my son was punched in the face by a fifth grader he's eight years old and he called him an n-word a kid pun a ten-year-old punched an eight-year-old and put and called him an n-word in his face now they were just playing football on the heist on the playground but these are the type of things where your garwood wherever the hell that's from that's the kind of thing that happens in garwood it's not something that happens in clifton and if we start letting the far right fascism wing of this town or other towns come influence our diverse our diverse town our diverse city excuse me only one person is speaking at the microphone just because i said right far fascist wing that i believe that some of these beliefs are far and fascist that you don't teach children about human reproductive like the entire world the human race would come to an end if we didn't teach children about sex like seriously what are we trying to hide here ma'am this is the last time i'm stopping this if you can't keep your quiet you're going to have to leave the room i don't care who it is he has the floor he's addressing us please keep your comments to yourself while people are speaking thank you can i get my time back there for mr smith thanks um so where was i uh i believe that it's a slippery slope and if you don't teach children reproductive health uh more children won't know how to speak about sexual abuse and and i i just i'm it's really upsetting that this is even coming up in this community honestly i stand with the board and i hope you guys have a strong backbone thank you hi uh i'm lilly d'amato i live here in clifton um i wasn't going to speak tonight but i'm pretty disturbed um so i had a pretty unique educational experience i grew up in massachusetts i had a very jewish elementary in middle school went to catholic school for various reasons for high school um and one thing i i got i went to an all-girls catholic high school and um one thing that they did that i really valued was they had a full-on sex education there this was not a catholic school that was teaching only abstinence we learned about all of the different types of contraceptives we learned about all of it and why and the principal was a nun she was one of the sisters because they knew we were going to do something we were going to figure it out and knowledge is power right so i think that that's important information right knowledge is power the more you know the better right i also want you to really pay attention to who sounds fearful here and who's leading with love right decisions good decisions are not made out of fear right the fear of saying the word penis or vagina or vulva i don't know these are scientific words we're in a pandemic right mr schull talks about you know sexual abuse well if your five-year-old doesn't know the word penis and someone's touched him somewhere and he has no vocabulary for that that happens right that abuse may keep going and i certainly hope for none of that but knowledge is power lead with love right not with fear that's it thanks [Applause] good evening marcia miller clifton i have information from the family watch international organization on comprehensive sex education and the harmful effects on children one it sexualizes children and normalizes child sex and desensitizing children to sexual things may give examples of children having sex or imply many of their peers are sexually active may glamorize sex use graphic materials teach explicit sexual vocabulary or encourage discussion of sexual experiences attractions fantasies or desires two teaches children to consent to sex may teach children how to negotiate sexual encounters or how to ask for or get consent from other children to engage in sexual acts with them three normalizes anal and normal sex introduces these high-risk sexual behaviors to children and may normalize them male 1 vital medical facts such as extremely high stds for oral and anal cancers associated with these sexy i'm sorry these risky sex acts promotes homosexual and bisexual behavior promotes acceptance of and or exploration of diverse sexual orientations sometimes in violation of state education laws may omit vital health information and or may provide medically inaccurate information about homosexuality or homosexual sex teaches children sexual pleasure teachers children about sexual pleasure may tell them they are entitled to or have a right to sexual pleasure and encourage children to seek out sexual pleasure promote solo or mutual masturbation while masturbation can be a part of normal child development encourages masturbation at young ages making children more vulnerable to pornography use sexual addictions or sexual exploitation may describe masturbation or provide instruction on how to masturbate may encourage children to engage in mutual masturbation eroticizes condom use may use sexually explicit models the penis the vagina models seductive role play to promote condom use to children may provide medically inaccurate information on condom effectiveness and omit or de-emphasize failure rates may imply that condoms will provide complete protection against pregnancy as tds promotes early sexual independence teaches children they can choose to have sex when they feel they are ready or they find a trusted partner fails to provide data about the well-documented negative consequences of early sexual debut fails to establish abstinence as the goal fails to establish abstinence as an expected standard for all school-age children may mention abstinence only in passing may teach children that all sexual activity other than unprotected vaginal or oral sex is acceptable even healthy may present abstinence and protected sex as equally good options for children promotes gender confusion promotes affirmation and or exploration of diverse gender identities may teach children they can have change in their gender or identity or multiple genders or may present other unscientific and medically inaccurate gender ideology fails to teach that most gender confused children resolve it by adulthood and that extreme gender confusion is a mental health disorder that can be helped teaches abortion and contraception i won't be able to finish the last few but it is it can be a detriment even to family values and and what's going on in their in their community that they consider to be healthy and and acceptable in their own mind and view thank you [Applause] well good evening i'm losing my voice my name is lori lallam and i'm the president of the clifton education association so first of all i want to thank the board for the two percent the staff is very happy for the kids and the programs that we'll be able to do so really thank you from the bottom of our hearts it's very important now i was sitting here wrestling with the idea of talking about the curriculum now as a teacher in the building and i stand in the hallway and i listen to our students talking about what's going on and i would advise parents and i'm speaking as a parent too right now that look at your computers go through your history files see what your children are doing on your computers check their cell phones they do need this curriculum i've seen things like most teachers have most administrators have and parents really need to know what's going on their children's life and that's all i'm going to say on that part now family watch international through the southern poverty law center sees this group as an extremist group and it's also designed as a hate group their founder is from gilbert arizona their ideology is anti-lgbtq and they have a huge write-up in the law center so it goes on and on about how the divisive the group is and how hateful they are and i know that our board and our staff would never do anything that's hateful to our children here because as a teacher and i know as board that we all treat our students with the same love and understanding that we treat our own kids so i will be glad to share the link with the board tonight thank you very much good evening board victoria manga butler new jersey i'm just coming to talk about the sexual education i think there's a lot of misconceptions going on here and a lot of confusion is what i'm hearing um i don't think we're saying hide it under the rug i don't think we're saying don't tell it don't talk about it a penis or a we're not saying that we're saying at a kindergarten level of a child who's five years old to be taught about masturbation and anal sex at that age is appalling that is totally unacceptable and why are we teaching the school's teaching well a parent should be teaching at home these parents should be teaching their children not our schools so i'm standing against this not only in this uh town but the towns in in all of new jersey and we're going to fight this because i don't think a little child of five years old should be taught about this kind of nonsense this is outrageous anal sex and masturbation at five years old is appalling and i do not accept any of this in the state of new jersey thank you for listening to me good good evening al dubois clifton well the first thing i like to say was that that event tuesday night was outstanding totally outstanding amish is if i pronounce it wrong please don't schlep how she was able to pronounce everyone's name from that list she should get a little award or some kind of recognition because that was amazing and when clifton does something with clifton i think we would be in better shape what i heard tonight from everyone both sides if we would meet personally and unite we're parents or our leaders because you nine are our leaders that we need to help us in this issue we really can't do it getting up here and mounting off and shouting off is not enough we need the leaders to take action and we can come up with our own program that would be dynamic from what i saw tuesday night at that event was outstanding i mean you know and all i didn't hear nothing about state you know i've been coming to meetings only because i keep hearing about the state the state the state mandates for this and the state mandates for that as well we can't we got to do this for the state mandates which is hurting our freedoms which is taking away a lot of liberties but if clifton can do it which i just heard some people say we can i think both sides could even unite some to some degree i mean there is truth about things like menstruation to understand that so you're not shocked at a certain age and other areas that need to be discussed properly and prudently um but you need some guidelines now i listened before we came in to the um to the meeting go to a trusted adult who's a trusted adult i'm going to ask the board tonight to discuss at your convenience privately whatever to look to get some kind of chaplains on staff can be from the various different religions and they're there now when people go through issues young adults go through issues it's called dysphoria it's normal i was just looking it up everybody has it anxiety depression this that it's a mood swing i remember growing up there was girls on our block that were better than the boys i would pick the girls to be on the baseball team the kickball team they were better and they used to beat up the boys but they all grew up to be mothers and the boys who were weaker that were a little chubby and they may have had the little boobs when we went to swimming they became football players that could destroy pick up one hand and throw you across the whole junior wing in the high school so they went through phases and they you need some guidance i ask you to look into having it's called spiritual dysphoria at that age but right away they're grabbing these kids and they're making a gender dysphoria then they're giving them hormones and then we don't know what's happening later on it's spirit they're going through some kind of mental spiritual dysphoria which we don't talk about we're afraid to talk about god the day of prayer those are realities and you know i'm sorry to get up here to always be confrontational but the wall you have here is a confrontational wall and there's an invisible wall and the structure is a structure where there's us against them it may not be because i just saw earlier how he's all acted and you're so personable and at that event which was outstanding i mean beyond you know and he was boasted about it but you should have the state hasn't done anything like that we're number one with that it was beautiful we could be a model we can get a program together that schools would come and say we're gonna adopt clifton's model if we all would meet together forget the zoom let's meet personally and uh talk about it and iron out our differences and then present it together um thank you and god bless [Applause] is there anyone else wishes to address the board chris tamato i live here in clifton i don't have prepared remarks i'm also not going to speak long but i do want to echo a little bit off of what the gentleman who just spoke before me said and that is this situation requires leadership regarding the sex ed curriculum and these people the anger the frustration i can feel it in the room tonight and i'm sure it's this is raging across the country right now in a lot of different ways there's a feeling that we're at a bit of a fulcrum point culturally with big questions what is the role of education public education what is age appropriate these are big discussions that need to be had and it's divisive right now and this situation needs leadership i would suggest that we deal with this locally in the sense that we try to get it together get on the record who supports what what specifically in this curriculum is good bad age appropriate not break it down make it clear involve the community take a stand and let the chips fall where they may when it comes election time because that's well that's democracy but this is in divisive times where big questions are thrust to the forefront is when we need leadership the most so just calling on all of you to take the reins and don't be afraid of this one it's a tough one but that's why you're here thank you [Applause] anyone else switch to address the board see an emotional close uh motion caused by commissioner abu drabo second by commissioner wad okay we'll move on to number 10 uh first reading of policy uh we have uh 164 8.15 record keeping for health care settings in school buildings covent 19 this is mandated 2417 student intervention and referral services mandated 2461 special education receiving schools mandated 5512 harassment intimidation and bullying mandated 7410 maintenance and repair mandated 8420 emergency and crisis situations mandated cooperation with law enforcement agencies mandated any discussion okay moving on to uh board uh committee reports um first one is uh policy uh mr abu dravo thank you president smith the policy committee meeting began at 3 03 p.m attendees were board vice president jim daly myself um judy basford and administrators were lou ross and mr binjo uh the committee review to recommend adoption of the following policies as per mistrust esme number one was 1648.15 record keeping health care settings in school buildings um that's newly mandated number two two four one seven student intervention referral services that was revised and also mandated number three five five one two harassment intimidation and bullying revised also mandated number four seven four one zero maintenance and repair revised also mandated number five eight four two zero emergency and crisis situations revised and mandated number six nine three two zero cooperation with law enforcement revised and mandated number seven two four six one special education receiving schools revised and mandated the following policies were reviewed and will be discussed at the next policy meeting pending recommendation from administration number one is two four point one five two four one five point zero four excuse me title one district y parent and family engagement number two two four one five point five zero title one school parent and family engagement number three two four one six point zero one post natal accommodations for students for informational purposes the following policies were reviewed with no recommended action or changes number one was three one six one examination for cause number two was four one six one examination for cause and a request to discuss bylaws there was zero one seven four was tabled until the next meeting uh the meeting was adjourned at 3 30 pm signed by mr lou ross if actually if i may add um mr president one thing that was in here miss basford did have a recommendation to add to the agenda um for that meeting and it was um asked to be tabled for next meeting because it was asked to be put on the agenda an hour prior to our meeting and that was unfair to rest of the board members since we sent the agenda out that morning this way there couldn't be any discussion on it prior to the meeting so hopefully that will be added for next meeting i have a comment um i would like my name changed to judith because that's what i go by for the board it's not judy it's judith second i wanted the record to reflect that i asked for 0174 which is a policy on how we do how we contact the board attorney um i wanted it on there because i was told only that morning that i was on the committee i didn't get information on it i had to take my lunch hour early that day but i wanted to discuss it because we had an issue at the last meeting that reflected that policy the policy reads that um it's all business it's not new business so i i don't understand why we couldn't have a discussion when i sat on policy i let any new discussion anybody bring something up because that's what the board does at committee meetings that's our job during committing meetings is to do our business we don't have committee of the whole so we all can't participate we participate at board committee functions so because i wasn't i wasn't really prepared for that um i went back into policy because several people encouraged me to because i've been doing it for a long time so i wanted to go back on it um right off the bat it made it left a really bad taste in my mouth because the policy 0174 is not properly being implemented by this board we are violating our own policy so where do you discuss anything about policy at the policy committee level so because i was not allowed to discuss that i'm going to bring it up in public i felt like my voice was stifled i'm making a public comment that i felt like i was discriminated against because of who i am i didn't feel like i was able to participate fully because of that and i'm i'm quite upset about that i wanted to talk about there's a log that's supposed to be kept there is transmission that when any one of us as a board member speaks to the attorney an email has to go to the to the board president that sets off a mechanism for those bills to be logged that's why i want to discuss it because we are not and we are not implementing our own policy we are violating it i just want the public to know that transparency does not exist when you get stifled remember that this year very important from where it's coming from so i want to talk about 0.174 under all business new business it's all business because it's a policy on our books that has been brought up several times before about how we contact the board attorney has nothing to do with the board attorney it has to do about the mechanism that's in place it's about the process and if we violate one of our board policies what does that say about the board we don't follow the rules okay any other questions on the minutes yes mr president i do yes i'd like to respond to that so mr president um that morning and actually matter of fact the meeting prior i've mentioned i stated there is a standing policy committee meeting the first tuesday of every month any board member whether on the committee or not on the committee has the right to request for something to be put on the agenda nothing was received whether miss bastard was told that morning i was told the year before nothing prohibits anybody from reaching out prior when notified and noticed and it was told and mentioned in a public session in front of the whole city and recorded that there was a meeting and right there and then could have been said i'd like 0 1 7 perform the agenda great not a problem now when the agenda was submitted to the whole distribute to the whole as the board that morning any questions any concerns anything against anything you want to add or anything against any questions i'm sorry no response till an hour prior to the meeting now i think that is careless to the rest of our colleagues on the board that if somebody had anything to add about zero one seven four if you were on your lunch or in a meeting or whatever maybe during your work days or your work job but during the day you had no way to get to that and second of all if there's something that was involving our attorney personally as a board member if somebody was talking about me during a committee meeting and my professionalism and how things are done and i'd like to be there in that professional realm so i can give an input and i can say you know okay i understand what you guys are saying our attorney actually deserves to be at our committee meetings particularly when she's spoken about or he or she has spoken about no matter who our attorney is so nobody's being stifled nobody's being left out nobody's being discriminated against okay and at the same time when miss basswood was policy chair at the time when things are put in place and you allow last-minute items like that an hour prior it doesn't allow board members to give input going in until they have to hear about it at a meeting such as this i think if we want to discuss as colleagues and have full input we are a team we are not a team of one it's a team of nine we have our attorney we have a superintendent we have recent superintendents who have various responsibilities defaulted responsibilities and things that they and roles that they have to play and if we're gonna do this we need to do this right and honestly to allow something like this an hour prior to the meeting to be put on the agenda i think is disrespectful to the rest of the board and the administration thank you okay any other questions on the minutes okay seeing now we'll move on to i'm sorry mr daley i'm sorry oh i'm sorry well we don't have a buzzer maybe we should get a buzzer that'd be kind of fun buzz each other i could see it getting dangerous um so fema you know for a fact that in our committee meetings i've been committed with you that you have brought things up that were not on the agenda it happens all the time we talked we had a 20-minute conversation about hopscotch torches in facilities the other day that was 1000 not on the agenda and that was because you wanted to have us talk about hopscotch as being being painted on so it happens all the time it's not like you know we didn't have all the the principles in in there to give their input about whether or not they wanted hopscott courages or not like it we talk about things in committee all the time that aren't on the agenda so i think trying to hide behind the fact that it was on the agenda and it came an hour before and et cetera like that's not a really valid excuse because we talk about things all the time that aren't on the agenda in those committee meetings i think you just didn't want to speak about this because it related to a question that you asked the attorney that wasn't recorded properly so i think that's the real crux of why you didn't want to talk about it but i think trying to hide behind some policy that doesn't pertain to committee meetings is is not valid because you yourself have brought things up in committees that weren't on the agenda and at the end of every committee meeting at least every committee i've ever been a part of we always say is there anything else that we would like to discuss that's like a pretty standard closing statement and i think every other board member can say that almost all of our committee meetings end like that and sometimes there are little ad hoc things that come up um i have no problem with you guys talking about this the next meeting that's fine but i don't think the way that this was shut down so violently is not our common practice mr president mr president if i may please help you but to miss bill jones i was speaking i was speaking again disrespect um through you mr president to the board attorney this had nothing to do with you madam attorney it had to do with the process of how we operate as a board the board the policy speaks to emails that go to the president about what the subject matter is before we he gives us permission to speak to you it talks about a log that's supposed to be kept in the board building so we can reference if there is a problem we can reference the log to the bill okay i was bringing up process that's all i was bringing up nothing about you and i do feel stifled i do and you know what when i got the agenda i looked at it and it sparked the policy in my head i'm sorry that i can't throw these things out weeks ahead of time it reminded me that i had a concern and i put it on there and i asked for it to be discussed because that's what we do it's about board business it's not about dictatorships it's not about anybody going out rogue and and promising people and stating stuff it's about us as a board processing our board business that's it so that's what i wanted to speak about thank you mr abhijava thank you you're wrong so i have communication actually prior to that meeting asking and requesting for that to be put on the agenda that's one thing so i don't know who told you it wasn't and i was not privy to the agenda because it wasn't i don't remember being sent out or looking at it before it went out otherwise i said you missed something that i actually requested prior to that meeting so you're wrong on that one respectfully um second thing no actually i am not afraid to answer questions never have never will you got a question for me ask it i'll answer it yes i had an issue with the way things are worded because that was word or wrong yes i asked uh the the attorney about a better thing through the board president and we can talk about that later on today because i know it'll be brought up so i'm willing to talk about it thank you okay any other comments on the minutes seeing none um residency and security um mr water you ready for that oh i'm sorry thank you mr president mr paris i'm sorry uh residency and security committee meeting that on thursday april 28th members president from administration were dr robertosi mr gingaro mr doctor and mr constantino uh president from the board or myself ms beltran mr smith and mr aberdrabbo the meeting started at 403 pm mr doctor explained that residency investigation efforts are ongoing of the 1200 cases investigated this year over 200 involved tips provided by townspeople and staff members of those cases 34 resulted in a change of address within district while 133 were verified as residents 25 students were found to be non-residents and 20 have left the district with the remaining five to leave at the end of the school year mr doctor explained that a parent contacted dr robertosi and the board of education concerning investigations conducted by the residency department he explained the process involved in investigations and the fact that this family was visited twice in a 12-month period was an anomaly and that this would occur this year only as we reset our calendar and operations for the department uh number three mr constantino explained the security drills from march and april and that all observed drills were conducted properly number four mr paris explained a complaint from a townsperson about safety and traffic issues on colfax avenue crosswalk between city hall property and the high school driveway mr gingaro explained the difficulty that clifton pd is having finding crossing guards to man the needed stations furthermore that crosswalk has not had a crossing guard for at least a decade and would need to be a new post mr gingaro will reach out to clifton pd and explain the situation to see if anything can be done number five mr giangaro explained that security cameras are being updated throughout the district the beginning planning stage is nearly completed all schools and work will commence as soon as possible meeting concluded at 4 49 thank you any questions okay we'll move on to unfinished business is there any unfinished business uh yeah she told me that um the um what we brought up the last meeting could be discussed at this point um so i wasn't sure if it would be pertinent um to read the opinion um i think because it was kind of for public knowledge more than for the board's knowledge i'm not sure if the lawyer of you or whoever would want to read what's right uh the opinion that was emailed out to us today the opinion that you wrote for the board um about the three sorry the three questions that were asked of you about the election um elections in general um so i was just wondering if you wanted to read that so that people knew what was asked and then what was the answer um so if anyone who's running would you know be be uh receptive to that information as well we won't do that here already there is okay i don't care which everybody you know it's been discussed so much it really doesn't make a difference at this point okay however i i don't let me find it yeah just emailed out to us today i don't know if you were cell phones are great so okay thank you can you hear me excellent so the email that i sent to the board president which was then forwarded to the board recently uh states dear mr smith you have asked us for a legal opinion regarding the ability of a board of education member to run for another elected office and or to sit on another elected office while a board of education member specifically you asked the following can a board of education member run for an elected office such as the city council of clifton while serving as a board of education member in clifton two if elected to the city council can the board of education member continue to serve on the board of education and also on the city council three can a board of education member run for two elected offices city council and also board of education at the same time below are the answers to your questions this is a short opinion so but lower the answers to your questions one yes a board of education member can run for an elected office such as the city council of clifton while still serving as a board of education member there is nothing in the education statutes nor in the election statutes that prohibits a member of a board of education from running for an elected office while still serving on the board of education two once elected to the city council and taking the oath of office the board of education member must resign from his position on the board in order to serve on the other elect governing body see new jersey statutes annotated 18 a colon 12-2 which states specifically no member of any board of education shall be interested directly or indirectly in any contract with or claim against the board nor in the case of local and regional school districts shall he hold office as mayor or as mayor of or as member of the governing body of a municipality nor in the case of county special services school districts and county vocational school districts shall he hold office as a member of the governing body of a county and i underlined shall he hold office as mayor or as a member of the governing body of a municipality and so therefore emphasis was added three we found nothing in the statutes or regulations that prevents a board of education member from running for the board at the same time that he runs for another elected office again per the legal advice above once elected the board of education member must choose which office to take as he cannot serve on both the board of education and on the city council i trust this answers your questions should you need any clarification please do not hesitate to contact me sincerely derelice okay thank you um so just for a point of clarification can you tell us how this relates to the running of the school district because that's your purpose as the board attorney if i'm not mistaken yeah sure so um i i respond to the to requests for legal advice from the board president from the superintendent from the business administrator um [Music] from the assistant superintendent depending on the matter but generally the superintendent i mean obviously the superintendent always knows about that um in this case it was a request for a legal opinion on a matter that involved something that one of the board members was going to be doing what or possibly doing and i think that that relates to the school district in that sense because it affects the board but what is the actions of someone in their personal life which is running for an election have to do with the school board it affects the school board as to whether or not somebody has is going to have a conflict or not has how does that affect the sitting members of the board because if they're going to do something on the outside there's i mean there's a laundry list of things people could do to affect such as moving et cetera but i would think that that's a question for the county clerk or your personal a campaign attorney rather than using taxpayer funds to ask this type of question because it wasn't if it was like a 15-minute question that'd be fine but this was a three and a half hour question so it's kind of expensive question to ask in my opinion i i understand i you know you're perfectly entitled to your opinion um i think that it also affects the board because depending on when somebody is running you could end up having a vacancy on the board and that affects the whole board so we've been through that okay i'm i'm not here to disagree no no we've already been through that we've already had a member of the elise has the floor delicious is speaking wait it's okay um that's i i was asked a question understood i researched it i provided a legal opinion right but when the bill came out it had nobody's name elise is speaking right now please well it's okay we're having a conversation well that's guys once again it depends on who interrupts whom and they get it we've had this discussion that's why we have the leadership we have now on this board had decisions been made differently that day this wouldn't be going on um that that question was answered a long time ago when miss pino went uh during election during mid-term to the city council nothing changed in election law so people should have known the answer that question so to me it was a waste of money okay and i'm not it's not you but once again a 174 was not followed there was no email i asked mr using i just point something out to you ms bassword and again i'm not i'm not um i'm just point out just specifically to the board policy that i looked up and i just had it um here we go this the the policy you're talking about oh 174 one of the things about that policy and i frankly didn't even know this until mr uzi pointed it out to me that in the policy itself because it mirrors uh the administrative code to 6 acres 23a-52 paragraph a2 that's the accountability regulations those provisions state that school districts with legal costs that exceed 130 percent of the statewide average per student amount should establish the procedures outlined in one two three and four which are in the policy and according to mr usi this school district does not exceed 130 percent of the statewide average per student amount i don't know what that number is but that's what i'm saying to you okay so let me ask this question that question was asked by one member why wasn't that information disseminated with the rest of the board because that's something that could affect anybody else that wanted to um because you you have still till september to take out your petitions and maybe anybody else on this board would want to jump over to the city side and actually run it's stuff like that that it's just not getting disseminated to the rest of the board and that's the issue the policy was written that we had a log and i remember years ago a log was kept karen perkins kept a very very detailed log of all all the entries that was number one the other thing is that i know we wrote on there that email permission has to be granted from the board president when we change the policy because we wanted to control who was contacting the board attorney because we had an issue with a board member texting you and they weren't supposed to text you questions they're supposed to go through the uh the president or through the ba we have permission we're allowed to go through the ba as well to get permission to speak to you it's it speaks about that in the policy okay i'm not disagreeing with you ms fastford at all i'm not i'm not disputing the policy i'm simply just pointing out with what's in there i don't i don't disagree with having a log i think that's a fabulous idea is that's not within my purview to create the log obviously so and in terms of uh in terms of our legal opinion being disseminated um if we want to if the board wants me to send out the legal opinions to the whole board i certainly don't have a problem with that um when i sent it i sent it to the board president to the superintendent to the business administrator to mr abedrabel i and clearly you know it became it became a topic of conversation casually with some of my friends from the another other districts do you discuss what happens with your attorneys and one of my friends said to me um you can ask anytime if the board president is speaking to you we can ask what the conversation was about we're loud we're proving these bills but it is what it is um i'm just not happy with the fact is that we already knew the answer to this question it shouldn't have been charged to the uh to the the attorney it was a question that if you're running for another board you should have found out the information on your own that's i agree with miss beltran with that as well miss basford the only thing i have to say is mr wagyu i'm sorry we might speak the only issue i have which may have caused confusion in my opinion was the former board member mr casper i forgot what committee he sat on or if it was the county committee it was something of that purview back when we were in the high school he said that the law changed and he made it a bunch of comments were probably caused confusion just that's just my personal opinion of what i think why this happened now we should have honestly asked we should asked you once he mentioned it but obviously that was just in the past and that's probably why mr smith asked me because there it was it was a delicate assembly that he attended on november 21st 2020 and he said that the law has changed or something has changed and if you are going to plan on running for an election for something else that you have to actually step down now before and we all i think we all had that conversation we're like i think that's not true or that but obviously you need a legal opinion that's going to check the facts um mr president i was actually at that meeting and the delivery of that statement was actually incorrect you can run for everything you cannot run the same time in the same election for two different offices that's where he got the confusion um there was a whole a very lengthy conversation you can't sign one uh petition and say that you can hold this office while you're gonna run for a newly running person for two separate offices because you cannot commit to the the oath and saying that you can actually serve two different positions so he got very confused about that that's not what the that that's not what was delivered at that meeting i wasn't at the meeting i wasn't privy to that conversation so mr smith all three of these questions came from you no other board member no uh mr aberdrabbo asked to speak to the attorney concerning him okay so it came from him all three questions may i speak now thank you and no it did not actually so to the public let's let's let's set this really straight really quick if anybody knows me i'm pretty political savvy i work for legislators to stay in the federal level for a very long time you want to ask me when this law went to about where you can't hold dual offices that was 2010 i remember where i was that year okay and there have been many instances let's look at lieutenant governor for example she was running for lieutenant governor and state legislature at the same time yes you can run for two office at the same time no you could not hold two outside that is illegal unless you are grandfathered in such as assemblyman gary shares an example forsake assemblyman and also can also uh council president pat lepore who stepped down he was grandfathered in but he went to respect the law he was the mayor of woodland park and a freeholder and he stepped down as woodland park mayor i know the laws but there was one thing that came back and that's the one thing i wasn't sure about and i asked state legislators exactly what they said we had nothing on the books i said president smith back in 2020 mr casper came back from a delegate assembly and said xyz but why nobody want to speak then is what i'm confused about why you want to speak now and not then when he actually read it okay excuse me stop making faces let's act like adults okay that's one thing second thing we want to talk about why policy needs to get changed now when you're a chair of policy why'd you change why did you not change it when you were the chair of policy that's what i want to know why now why is it when it's good for you it's good for you when it's good for everybody else ah time out i got a problem with this that doesn't work with me it does not work with me and you know what last meeting you targeted mr casper when he was not on the board and now you're targeting me and guess what i can handle myself and i can answer the questions so yes i did go to mr smith and say hey mr smith you know do you mind asking the attorney this because you know what what's going to happen and i'm not campaigning for myself i'm going to make it on the record but the example was brought up and yes i am running for council but you know what let's say what happened that i finished my petitions i put it in there now somebody comes up here and says oh mr abhijaba you got to step down well now i can stand on my two feet and say no i don't because you know guess what i guarantee you somebody would have came up and said that why because they don't like me and guess what i don't have to be like everybody it doesn't hurt me i can go to sleep at night but you know what i'd rather spend a little extra time and i did my due diligence and i did not go to the board attorney to last minute as the last option i went to legislators on my own i went to attorneys on my own they said you have to ask your own board attorney that's exactly what i did and that's one question that i asked not three questions let's set that straight so then who did the other two questions come from so that's you know that's where back to the crux of this like i i mean i guess he's okay spending taxpayer dollars on a personal question that's okay that's his own personal preview to do that that's totally up to him not something that i would do if i was choosing to run for both because i am also up for election so i guess i could potentially run for both offices if i want to now i know because we paid for this question to be answered i would not have used taxpayer dollars to answer this question i would have had my own campaign legal counsel answer this question for me or i would have gone to the um to the county clerk or the city clerk but regardless where did the other questions come from then or was it just yourself asking the question which is fine if it was just yourself asking a question but it just seems strange that these questions as he said you know it brought up in november and now all of a sudden we're asking it um that's just that's just my own opinion if any other board members have any opinions on this um that's where i stand are you sure so just just so that we're clear sometimes when clients ask a question whether it's a board president or private sector client it doesn't matter who questions are asked in such a way that lawyers because we work in minutia sometimes we'll divide the question up whatever the question is so that we can understand it logically to look at all of the facets of it so right here right now i can't tell you i didn't record the conversation that i had with mr smith i couldn't tell you yes he asked me three distinct questions i know that whatever conversation the conversation that we had that's how i analyzed it so i just want to make that clear that it's not necessarily well he asked me one two three it was a conversation and i divide it up so that i know exactly what it is that i'm looking for and be able to answer it does that land okay yes first of all i stand behind my work and the committee last year and prior years of their work i don't have a problem with 174 i have a problem that we're not implementing the policy that's my problem i wanted to bring it to the committee because that's where we do board business that's where we do more business that's where we're supposed to function we can't function as a committee of the whole we're supposed to bring you mean to tell me every single committee has never brought up new business that's bs that's bs i mean you guys people come bits about stuff that's not even board related in these committees and they talk about you know the sky is blue or the the light outside the building isn't the right color it's really disgusting that because i asked i asked to speak about something at a committee meeting that i went back to that i was reluctant to be on mr abu drabble because of you and what you've done to me all right that's why we're we're on the topic of i am on the topic that's going on i am on no i am going to explain to the community why i jumped off a committee that's that's the man has harassed me we're not discussing that right now this is specifically under what under what tense mr president because you know what you allow him to go off on iran but when a woman wants to you shut it down okay you are sexist and you're not enough no i'm not speaking no i am not accepting excuse you're out of order excuse me you're out of water yelling at me i am not yelling i'm very calm and telling you you're out of order we are discussing the question that miss beltran brought up that is what is okay discuss so no other band box no other comments about anything that is the way it's supposed to be run i am only doing what i'm following i you know you're yelling at me and i don't appreciate and you owe me an apology you yelled at miss beltran at the last meeting you were disgusting and i got phone calls again again this is out of order please okay so i'll get back to the question so we're talking why why is this allowed to be put on a bill for an attorney because i think the public has the right to know what we're spending our money on okay we pay you what 150 dollars an hour right per hour okay we've hired special attorneys for five hundred dollars an hour from people that don't have problems spending the board's money okay i would like to know why these this question was asked because you have a we have an ability to call down to school boards and get the question answered for free mr uh president smith by may yes the actions and steps that were taken as follows the board attorney was less and i will work i will work backwards the abort attorney was last i have call logs of my own that i can share that other attorneys were called and they said reach to your board of attorneys before that i reached out to school boards and i did and i got call log on that i can share with you they said we we haven't heard of that but that's conflicting right school board says we haven't heard of that but yet you have a board president board member at the time in 2020 that says he came back from a county delegates meeting or state delegates meeting and is giving other information that was given by the delegation or the njsba prior to that i asked legislators like many of us up here have the ability to call legislators we have friends on legislator and state legislator and call them and say hey so and so john jane have you heard fyz no i it huh something's weird and no this was not asked in march no this was not as last november no this was not asked in 2021 this was as in and i asked this question repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly and i get the answer now is that my fault that i asked a long time ago and i tried to communicate this long time ago so at the end of the day the idea of asking it goes to the line of a timeline everything led to your board attorney so let's say i didn't ask the board attorney let's say what mr casper at the time who was a board member decided you know that is not decided but that actually was factual and none of us were able to know the answer let's say somebody did decide to declare for council candidacy and still on the board and is called out to step down and says no can the board can the board get sued can the person can person legal actually take it against that person to remove that person so at the end of the day it's better to do our due diligence and make sure that we don't go down that that black hole so we need to understand what we're dealing with while we're sitting on the board okay so just to clear some things up the any board member can ask the attorney any question the board president just logs it and gives permission i do not decline most of the time i don't even get an uh a statement of why they're contacting the board attorney but leaving that aside you asked me to speak to the board attorney i say yes that is between you and the board attorney now that is how the process has been here at least that i checked back for the last 10 years okay at least for the last 10 years no one is denied talking to the board attorney if the board attorney feels that something is not related to the school system in her professional capacity she will then tell the the board member i do not answer this question and is not in the realm of the board of education that is not my decision all of a sudden we're we're giving powers to me that don't exist that's not my decision i've never given anyone turned anyone down to speak to the attorney when you ask me i log it it goes into a file and those are compared to the bills okay so if someone contacts the board attorney and the board attorney feels that that is a question that she can answer for this board then she does so hasn't changed in the last 10 years okay so again whether we don't agree with her opinion that's a different story but she performed her duties as the attorney by asking questions of this board just in this past week there's been four or five requests to speak to the attorney no one is denied to speak to the attorney everyone has the opportunity to speak to attorney if they wish and release again in her capacity if someone called on a personal issue i am sure you would not answer their question or say that is your personal information is that correct that's correct so i don't know where we're getting whether this was someone's personal views or whatever if so it would have been declined by the attorney and it was not the attorney performed her duties the bill to pay her should be paid plain and simple that is how the process works okay we've gone back to how many years mr russia did we check their a log book has not been used um and again i can't i don't know from previous boards and what they did all as i know when a member of this board asked to speak to the attorney i print that request out it goes into a file and then i compare it when the bill comes in that is my extent of it i am not a person here to decide that your your question is not important i've never declined anybody from speaking to the board attorney i don't believe that it's meant to put into the hands of the president to decide whether something is a question to go to the board attorney is acceptable or not that's not under the realm of the board president that would be between the board person and the attorney and that is what has been filed been followed okay um also i i asked mr daily i said in previous years are our bills excessive with the attorney is that what there is an issue away right we had this conversation so if the bills were excessive then i could see the board questioning this but now the board's going to try and you know police the questions that another board member can ask and that's not our job that's not our job and if our attorney makes a decision and you feel it isn't appropriate then you have the right to go do what you want if you want to ask school boards that's fine but that's what we have our attorney for she represents the board and if a board member has a question she is the one to answer it and again nobody in the two years that i've been president has ever been declined to speak to the president to the uh board attorney nobody i do not believe that is under the realm of the president and that would be between you and the attorney yes miss belgium sorry um to avoid i think some of this um confusion going forwards maybe every time a formal uh response is given that everyone would be shared with because then we wouldn't have taken to the bills and been like what's this question if march 3rd or march 15 whatever time you responded we all were like oh okay valid question now we have an answer so i think that would just be helpful every time a formal response like this is written back that we all are shared to them we're not shocked on the bills i know there's a few other things on the bills that we don't really know about that we've asked questions now in committee meetings because of what we saw on the bills which we weren't really we didn't have no we had no idea that those events were even going on so i think that might just be helpful that's an excellent policy it can go to public just hasn't been followed in the past that's yeah the reason it wasn't and we did have this discussion there are some times when she won't be able to share it with the whole board correct are there some instances when you can't share what you discussed with another board member no so everything could be shared which can't be shared with the people if it's something that has to do with the student issue that i've shared with the superintendent then perhaps yeah so it just can't be shared publicly necessarily yeah so that's not yeah i think why not yeah i'm just saying just because it'll clear up some of those sure sorry it might lead to more emails yep that's not an issue at all mr smith okay so going forward uh delise will uh share with the entire board after uh her discussion with a board member and she'll share it with everybody mr smith i have a question yes has a board member ever asked to speak to an attorney and you've asked why and they said i can't tell you i want to tell the attorney and i can't tell you yeah there's been some times they just it's so it's a board thing yeah okay but again i i never asked i never asked anybody for the reason i i just never felt it was my you know i don't think i have that right to do that and i and i want to make it very clear to the public last week when this came about and mr smith was being attacked because quote unquote being a campaign major or somebody in the past or what not was first of all um not appropriate because you need to get the full story to attack somebody to have evidence that things are being done but that's not what i'm going to talk about but when i corrected and i said the line may be reading wrong and i voluntarily said hey i asked that question some board member said oh okay well then that answers that question but that still it doesn't have that very calmly and cool about it um miss beltran you were fine with it when i spent sickly when i told you in the back room exactly what it was for no no don't give me a look because it was because no because mr canole was actually right around us as well so so mr knight was around the whole time and you and you didn't have a problem with it so you know danny kindness i got you yeah so what i'm just trying to say is the tune changed from last week this weekend i really want to know why and i and we can have this personal discussion on the side i really want to know why because i'm curious why we're okay with it last week when i gave the explanation here and when i spoke to you you know in the back room about it and i was more than happy to answer any questions but also now we want to change our tune in public you offered to pay for it last weekend so i don't know if that still stands no i did not so please open any words in my mouth joe conovo standing right there when he said that i would be willing to pay for it i mean if you want to start going what talked about in the back room and you want to make comments about what a woman looks at you and makes face you know it's just you know this whole gender thing because it becomes that happens it's not a female it's not a gender it's not a race not a religious thing this is a fahim and dana thing let's get that very straight so it's not a gender thing and no i'm not trying to shut you down because you're a female you know what is the problem is is that the past year this gender card has been thrown around way too much because they decide they want to which is fine you have every right to do so nobody should be shutting another person now for cultural religious gender-based or whatever you believe in nobody has the right to do that and you have every right to speak out i fully support that so please refrain from saying because you're because you're you're a woman making looks no it really isn't dana it's because honestly that's not how i maybe i did and i don't remember i can't tell you 100 i did but we had a conversation in the back and frankly that's just what i remember so that's all i'm saying all i'm saying is thank you i think i've i've been answering questions respectfully this entire time i don't think i've been disrespectful just my opinion i've been expressing it and unfortunately we have differing opinions which is part of politics and part of life and you know that's just how it is and if we're going to talk about everything that we've said in the back room and bring it up to the dais we'll be here all day for years talking about things that are talked out there that are different here which is the same as every political environment you know the supreme court is going to fight with each other in the front and then go to lunch afterwards that's just how life is and i'm sorry if that's if i offended you in any way if uh you know you you don't like that i'm questioning things that are on the bill that mention your name um but that's just who i am and that's how i'm going to continue to operate and no you shouldn't be sorry for that because i didn't take offense that at all i'm more than happy to answer questions but let's answer the questions that are supposed to be answered in terms of what's right and what's wrong and not make things up that's all i'm asking i've answered questions off the day so i've answered questions on the days i have no problem answering questions whatsoever i'm an open book i have nothing to hide if i'm wrong i'll admit i'm wrong if i see something if something's yellow i'm not going to say it's white orange black green or whatever it may be it is what it is it's just life yeah we disagree but the end of the day if we're gonna disagree let's disagree about the facts not things that you know factual that's not things that we're gonna make up and pull out of a box and stick in another box like yeah that bot that thing just jumped from one box to another no it didn't you pulled it out and put it in it let's let's be realistic all right and also from uh last meeting just so there's a clarification on this as well um ms gutierrez you could speak to this if you wish but um there was a question about it in the the bill last meeting the attorney did not have her information in front of her that is why it was not revealed until she could go back and look at her notes and then present it back to the board this week that is why it was not answered last week am i correct in saying that okay so any other discussion on this i have a unfinished business on april 7th uh under new business f number three i asked for a um that the board attorney contact the sec for an advisory opinion regarding lay people attending board committee meetings and i have not received anything and i'd like to know when i'm going to receive something on that if we're going to receive an answer if the petition actually was sent thank you miss bassford um that's the meeting that i i wasn't here for that meeting um and we did take a look at that issue there is an advisory opinion that we wrote up but um in looking at the rules for advisory opinions they're supposed to come from the individual board member or school official um okay so april 7th it's may 7 19 why am i only hearing this now because i have it ready for you if you'd like to send it yourself or if you want the superintendent well but it's really okay so because it came from me if it came from any other board member poof i'm done i'm sorry i i disagree with all he is i think it's disgusting that that it is selected the way people get treated that was april 7th i asked for that april 7th that's over a month ago it's not fair then i i could have wrote it already i could have brought it down i could have drove down to trenton and hand delivered it myself that's not fair that i have to wait this long to find out it was never even done i think it's appalling i am very upset i am more than upset i am appalled and i think anybody that sits here and sits quietly you guys should all have your heads examined too because when a board member excuse me when a board member asks and requests them makes a motion makes a second motion second it's voted on by this unit and nothing gets done that's disgusting it's disgusting it what it shows that my participation in this group is not worthy to the people that i sit with because they don't even care that it wasn't followed up that's disgusting okay it was a valid request i was told it was going to be done it's may 19th so i get told today that april 7th april 8th i could expect a phone call it's not going to be done it's really disgusting okay i waited all this time to find out i can't even say what i want to say because it's going to come out the wrong way i'm really upset okay anyone else under unfinished business um mr president i do um last meeting i mentioned that there was a legislative meeting may 24th 2022 10 a.m next tuesday uh i requested and i'd like the board should be a little more cognizant if they have anything to add when asked to do so because particularly when you're dealing with external partners like legislators you know i think there was one meeting where we gave them within less than a week and they canceled a meeting because they needed more time to do some some research policy research legislative research and find out more information i had to reach out and i want to thank mr paris mr smith if i'm missing anybody else i apologize but it was only those two who have said we got to bring stuff to the legislature in public and actually follow it up when i even though i asked a second time but life happens and it was added to the agenda um if we're going to say let's ask our legislators please let's follow up let's do our due diligence as people who are stewards of this town and you know let's not just showboat let's you know let's add and it's not legislative this is every policy it is every every committee excuse me so i just ask that we do our due diligence in terms of following up in regards to any committee so i did send the legislative agenda over already if there's any additions anybody would like to make please let me know as soon as possible if hopefully by tomorrow so we can try to sneak it in for the agenda so it gives legislators some time to do some research thank you okay and a deadline for that like you can't you can't have it last minute yeah no last minute i mean we got a if we have to talk about committee meeting agendas but we already have that i think what 24 hours that's got to be no no more than 24 hours agenda no but to committee meetings well committee members don't want to laugh there's there's actually a policy yeah no last minute yeah so tomorrow you want to have everything by tomorrow if anybody has any additions for example mr paris gave me some stuff about njsba where we should support that was added um there were stuff actually that mrs basser sent over from njsba of legislative resolutions senate and assembly which i added for a little more clarity there was stuff that mr daley and mr smith you gave me and there's stuff from the administration that they gave me and i added it and i sent it over so that gives us one week i have not gotten any pushback from any state legislators saying that there's not enough time and they've all accepted the agenda but we just need to be a little more cognizant of external partners it's not as easy as as an administration hey can you look this up to our attorney hey can you look this up when you're dealing with outside parties it gets a little more difficult okay any other unfinished business okay let's move on excuse me let's move on to uh education administration uh we have ea 1 through ea 9.

yeah and the way that this works is that these press issues come from the illinois association of school boards they have a committee of um school district leadership and lawyers that kind of put together the policies and whatnot and then they send them out to the all the schools in illinois we approve the first reading and then between the first reading and the second reading before they're adopted we take questions concerns or any issues that are brought up i say that because with this first reading i got an email from our cespa which is the non-certified education association and they were wondering about policy specifically 580 which is court duty and it talks about how they will reimburse for jury duty licensed employees and our paraprofessionals are wondering what does that mean and one of the questions in that policy if you look at it it needs to know are we going to treat our extra our esp employees our aides and our non-certified people the same way we treat our certified i would think that from my experience here we have and we will but those are some of the things that get brought up when you look at these policies and so um i i say that we approve these with the knowledge that you know those are the things that we will change and make modifications to when we are finally approve it next month does that make sense this will be at the board meeting next month yes ma'am so what we're doing is we're approving the first reading and then between now and next month everybody's got a month to really dive into these policies and look at them uh scott middle camp and adam hemkin are the two board members that sit on the subcommittee that review them and and go over the the details but really what happens is uh you know alyssa and i will review them and we'll kind of answer the questions and we'll touch base with scott and adam and make sure we're on the same page but if so if you get anybody contacting you regarding any of the policies then forward them on to scott or adam and then you'll have the recommendations at the next meeting yes ma'am okay here's a point of clarification we are we can make our own rules we can amend the rules and they will survive and what happens basically is our press is kept at the association level in any changes so when a new press policy comes down our changes are incorporated into the new one so we don't overwrite them so yeah we've we've done that in the past well just i guess the last go round we did yeah right so exactly all right perfect any further discussion all right without entertaining a motion to approve the first reading press issue 109.

she was selected as one of the grand prize winners only five were selected from get grades 11 and 12. she won an award there's a plaque that's going to go up that's got a picture of her painting i she also got cards with her paintings on it or they're painting on it and so she was one of only five she got an award from them and she also earned a scholarship to the summer school saturday art program at herron up in indianapolis so she gets to go up there and practice and show them how amazing she is because she's super awesome so um just recognizing her for that and uh yeah it's amazing it's like this big and we got it she got it done just under the wire we had to send it off on a friday to get it there in time and i literally took it to ship it while it was still drying so so she's uh yeah she's very talented she's won several other art awards in locally when i entered her stuff in in different shows well that's fantastic especially for james she's amazing yeah well i remember she won a grand prize for the duck uh yes in junior high school she actually won the same contest in junior high school and they used her painting from junior high school for all of their promotional materials and that was what was sent to us this year her painting was in the promotional materials this year cool so it's it's very very cool and her artwork will be part of a traveling exhibit of all the winners for the next three years and then she'll get back yeah yeah i wish she would be able to be here but she wasn't able to and but i just can't say enough wonderful things about her she's awesome yes yes so when she can come let's make sure we make another opportunity for awesome thank you guys thank you we have chris townsend and his team to present on the expansion of eagle manufacturing he's preparing to check give me a second here oh you just sit back there in the shadows you're doing your banana white compression [Music] sorry i don't know how to move back up [Music] there we go sorry about that all right so um just a quick presentation tonight so i wanted to go through um a little bit about our eagle manufacturing expansion that we've been working on here for a few months at this point actually um so just want to hit up some key points i'll have a lot of funny time for questions at the end to kind of dive in any details that you guys want but um maybe never works this is what happens when you project on zoom sorry there we go how does that do it that way that's right um so first question is why i think uh why are we wanting to expand eagle manufacturing um as far as space is concerned um we are current space we are currently in i think most everybody here has at least been in it at some point um worked okay for when we started and it's worked less okay as we've grown and got more students into the program and expanded the things that we do as a part of eagle manufacturing so we have a lot of equipment and space that is really separate from one another that really should be in the same space to allow us to use it a lot more efficiently we do not have room for any more expansion i've taken as much space as i could possibly grabbed from everywhere around us without getting space in another part of the building and we also have some supervision limitations because of that so we have four or five different spaces that students can be in at any given time which presents some supervision issues from time to time um as far as from the student perspective why would we do this it's going to allow us to give them more real world experiences bring in some different types of equipment and different technology it's going to allow us to arrange things a little more efficiently so it's more similar to a real world production environment um so a lot more real world experiences and probably more importantly is it's going to allow us to greatly increase the number of students that participate in eagle manufacturing on a yearly basis so at the very least doubling from where we currently are if not more than that um long term especially uh and then also it's going to allow us to the expansion vehicle manufacturing allows us to utilize the space we currently have in the high school here for engineering a little bit better and give us some more space to do more things within the engineering program and it's also going to allow us to expand our construction program and do some more higher level work within that construction program sorry i'm going to jump over here so um yes and i know mr austin presented about this a few weeks ago or a couple months ago or time flies i'm not sure how long ago was to be honest but these are all the programs to study at the high school that are affected potentially by the eagle manufacturing expansion um the construction program already talked about we have three courses over the course of three years that students can participate in that program that will be potential or expanded as a result of the eagle manufacturing expansion gives us more space here to spread out construction and do more with it our engineering program which is four-year four-year program will be able to utilize some of the space that is currently taken up with equal manufacturing equipment equipment that isn't used for engineering um and utilize that space more effectively and then the principles of precision machining digital design and business administration are all pathways to lead directly into eagle manufacturing so that allows us the expansion also allows us to teach those principles courses outside of the space we currently use which is used for engineering courses so we have issues with overlapping needing to teach in engineering course at the same time as a principal's course causes a lot of issues with scheduling and other things so that alleviates a lot of those issues and then once again allows us to get more students into these pathways as part of that expansion so that's kind of the why uh the how and where is or the how i should say is mostly due to a community donor um who came in and wanted to help brown county schools and we put forth proposal to the uh community donor or potential donor at the time for this expansion and all the good things that i've talked about i'll talk a little more about here in a minute that allow us to do for our students so that's a big reason of or how we're going to be able to do this and then also we're going to be utilizing pretty much all the equipment we have now we'll be moving to the new space so that saves us a lot of potential expenditures on new equipment so we will be moving a lot of that and also using an existing space that we have in the district and one that is currently unused which is that red box up there on the screen for reference high schools up there on the north side of the parking lot and then that is the kind of mid-ish section of the former intermediate school uh directly to the uh right of it is the gym and directly to the left is where the current cr of crc is currently located so that space in between where the crc is and where the gymnasium is is what we're looking at expanding into this is what that is going to look like i have a little more detailed one here on the next slide here in a second but we currently have the library taking up two of these rooms are i guess the elementary library that they use to house all those materials that go out to the elementary schools um that's currently actually taking the two rooms in the bottom are the southwest corner we're going to be moving one of those across so they're kind of across from each other on in the space there and then we're going to be taking these six classrooms three on the north side three on the south side to the right of where those spaces are and that will be converted into what you see here which is our manufacturing lab on the south side uh our admin lab there kind of within the manufacturing lab our graphics lab on the northeast side and then our shipping receiving and inventory area uh they're kind of in the northwest corner this is what it and i know obviously no you can't read any of this but this is what it looks like with actual equipment in the space um this has what the layout will roughly be with all the you know work tables and equipment and all the different things that will be going into the space this is approximately what it'll look like um currently working on figuring all that and getting all that finalized but that's kind of a rough layout of what it'll look like and the big benefits here um as i mentioned earlier increased cte course enrollment for students of brown county schools um increase real world relevant experiences for students crown county schools increase the number of students who are prepared for careers in this region there's a lot of need in brown county and around brown county in our region for these types of jobs and the experience that they get potentially decrease or definitely decrease numbers of students going to c4 for similar types of programs so they're keeping most of our machining students for example here in brown county versus having them have to travel to c4 and then also giving students more of a reason to come to school and we can engage in their education so it's a real i know most of you have been down to eagle manufacturing so you've seen what it's like what the students do and how they react or interact with the program and um we're just excited to be able to get more students involved and more students engaged in their education so i'm happy to take any questions thank you okay so what is needed to be done to accept the space to accommodate what you're going to do questions sure um so it's mostly there's not a whole lot of structural changes that have to be made there are some walls that have to be moved but they're all drywall so it's minimal most of it is honestly cosmetic and just rearranging the space there will be some hdac upgrades that need to be made to that space as well to accommodate the new equipment and the number of students but the big chunk of it is just reconfiguring and updating and making everything look like it belongs there and suiting him for the equipment that we have putting in uh air compressor pressed air system electrical requirements you know ventilation and plus some did i understand you were saying some additional uh equipment yes yes absolutely initially we're working mostly to get the construction done and so we can get over there but long term yes adding some more capabilities what kinds of things would you be able to do i mean like i know that you're you just added like screen printing with some other things like what are some of the types of things you anticipate having so uh more advanced capabilities of manufacturing um so allowing students to be able to learn and experience higher level manufacturing processes so as an example um part of the plan is to add a new cnc mill that has five access capabilities which is a much more advanced level of programming and knowledge to be able to do that that frankly doesn't really happen in high school ever very very few high schools do that um adding our automatic capabilities for screen printing so doing are we still doing manual screen printing traditional screen printing but also adding the ability to do automatic screen printing press so we can do set up and run larger runs and shirts and things like that um and just in general increasing our volume that we can do because of the space in addition to more students throughout the day and then as far as the staffing i know you and me or obviously the prior staff and i know we were working on one other staff member um how many more staff are we going to need to add or is that going to be it um well we have mr mcgill on the agenda tonight um and then we're talking about uh potential adding on to cover some other courses as well and we're kind of working through what that might be it's we are we've had a big demand for our for sign up for our courses for next year for our principals courses and those pathways so more than we anticipated so um we're needing to accommodate more students than we thought we would have to for next year so we're working through that i'm just saying you're saying doubling the number of students which as a teacher means yes should be more staff how do we accommodate that so the majority of that is covered with bringing on our third instructor to be able to take off of my plate some of those introduction engineering classes and then take off mr keeper's plate some intro construction courses um that's where we get a lot of that capacity um and then we might have we're working on ways to maybe fill in a little bit more potentially i don't think any decisions have been made until we know exactly how many kids are going right i understand when i hear you know i see this you've got this big facility you're talking about supervision of course that's really important as well yeah and and as a part of that plan it's been designed in such a way that it's much easier for a single teacher to be able to supervise the entire space versus what we have now um so for example you know our screen printing lab that we mentioned is in its own like conference room so it's literally like around the hall with no windows or anything and in this space in that you go back forward one more mr phones thank you um in that admin lab there the advisor's desk is kind of like right there on the hallway incredible window so from that desk you can see in essentially the entire manufacturing lab the entire graphics lab and then if you move walk out the door you can see the shipping and receiving areas so it's not perfect but it's much much easier to be able to see the entire space and give more supervision and honestly at this point when students are going to be working on their own they've been through a principles class and they know how we operate so they don't you know they don't last long if they're not gonna you know you know what i so you'll be putting windows then in the hallway so that you can see even though it's across the hallway yeah so yeah all those that mr keyboard is pointing out are windows those in the hallways there are windows so any of those darker areas are all windows open windows yeah yes oh it absolutely does yes yes huge difference compared to what we're doing right now because we don't i don't i have zeros anywhere even to the outside did any of your existing students participate in the design of the new facility absolutely um so um we had ideas about what we wanted to do and you know because we knew things we were gonna have that they weren't aware of but this was something where like for example our shipping receiving area i brought in our current shipping receiving manager and we sat down and had a discussion about what would be best to put where and what would make the most sense for the space um sat down with our graphics manager and talked through the layout even she was one who made some changes to it that i didn't even think about about oddly enough about supervision because she was originally we had the desks facing the hallway like the advisor's desks are across the hall and she's like i can't won't be able to see anybody and like monitor so turning them sideways for example to be able to actually see while she's working types of things so little things like that that i didn't think about they definitely contributed for sure right now when i visited you it seemed like you had a large majority a large population of seniors participating so you're going to have alan um so we have about 12 seniors right now we have about 23 in the program it's about half and half from this year to next year um and we have about 12 coming in ish for next year and then the year after that's when we start ramping up so and then when we had that discussion your target was to try and move the program further into where you get earlier participation is that part of this next curriculum in 2023 or is that something that's going to happen later definitely for next year so those principles courses that i was talking about as part of that pathway will get the students in the pathway to legal manufacturing either as a freshman or a sophomore and our eagle of manufacturing as well the middle school is going to help feed students into that program in addition to those principles courses so that is all those principles courses are being implemented next year we have we have one this year or two we're adding the design course and i guess the last question i have is from the donor that you had is the donor donation enough to cover just the reconstruction or the construction that you have to do or is there funds left over to the requirement equipment or um currently the commitment is for construction um and getting the space up to what where we need it to be and then we're working on uh um other means for the equipment [Music] i don't have the numbers off the top of my head for the number of students going to see for right now um i i can't say the big advantage of that for students is that they lose i think it's at least a period a day for travel time back and forth so keeping them here allows them to take more classes not only hours but also other classes here as well that they don't lose out on um but i do not have numbers yeah we're currently in in figuring that out we do not have a number at the moment well thank you very much for that presentation thank you of our presentations [Music] why do you know that her mother and my son thank you [Music] there we go so to begin with i just want to thank the board for taking the time to hear about our presentation and um to you know hear about this project that the three of us have been working on for the past year so for those of you who don't know my name is marie fields and i'm a senior and i am the student coordinator for the brown county pop festival um taylor is our assistant coordinator um she is a freshman and then of course mrs billings is our staff coordinator so our project this year was called the brown honey pop festival and pop stands for pursuing our purpose so the pop festival is a part of the basil scholars program which misspellings and i were selected to participate in about a year ago the basil scholars program this is a year-long leadership program for high schools seniors and their partnered educators it's funded by the bezos family foundation and yes the bezos bezos is his parents 12 student educator teams are chosen from across the united states every year and one team of five students is chosen from the african leadership academy in johannesburg south africa and the purpose of the basil scholars program is to develop a community change project or a local ideas festival as they call it based on an identified community so when miss billings and i sat down kind of over the summer and they were brainstorming what we wanted our local ideas festivals to get out and we had so many different topics that we could have chosen from it it was very important to narrow it down to just one but i kind of related it back to my personal experiences growing up in rural indiana i've always had really really big dreams um as you can see here when i was in eighth grade i wanted to be a supreme court justice and that was a trip that um miss oliver and i went on for history today um so i've always had really big dreams i kind of found myself having little resources because of the community that i grew up in especially because i'm a first generation college student and i'm from a low income household and one thing that i also noticed throughout you know my high school experience is there's definitely a pipeline between our brown county graduates and low-wage local jobs right after high school with little opportunity for career advancement yeah so taking marie's personal experience um we kind of took that as a starting point and then um brought that to our students and our staff to see if there was a larger need there so our students for equity group that already existed held a workshop at one of their meetings where students kind of brainstormed based on that prompt that you see young people in brown county need and gave us some of their responses and then we also sent out a teacher and staff survey um to have some input from the perspective of the people who are here to support our students what they see our students needing in order to have um a successful you know post-secondary future so based on those two things we kind of identified that there there was a sense of apathy when thinking about future planning amongst our young people and so what did they need to overcome that and we came up with this list that our students kind of brought us to of empowerment opportunity motivation direction and hope and so all of that's kind of tying together into the larger concept of purpose but they're needing purpose so this project's vision statement was the brown county high school will be a will be a learning community where all students feel empowered to pursue current and future educational and career opportunities that align with their purpose and aspirations and then their mission our mission statement was to connect students with post-secondary opportunities through workshops and resources that align with their own passions and purpose so they have a broader variety of options to consider after their high school so um in our initial you know phases of the planning process we partnered first with our um building administration with mr austin and mr hutchins and our master teachers and academy leaders um to kind of tell them what our idea was and what we were thinking about um we also brought on mrs breitzman and the crc and our registrar just pruitt um as kind of our our like adult team support team to help us through that and we also had a magnificent um core team of about 11 underclassmen um there we are this is a cute little picture of us on the day of our festival um we met once a week and they really helped us with student engagement um facilitating our purpose sessions which we threw about in just a minute and set up slash teardown on the day of the festival as well as you know providing a wide and diverse range of students perspectives on the development of our festival yeah so to fund the festival the basis family foundation gives each educator and scholar pair seed money of a thousand dollars and that is funding that's renewable um annually for the life cycle of of your local ideas festival um and then we were fortunate enough to have some additional funding through uh our bcs high ability grant program thank you um and so the majority of our budget as you can see there was spent on supplies um for the festival marketing supplies actual supplies we needed for the day of the festival as well as shirts for our volunteers one of the other major costs was the cost of the purpose development pilot session we did with an organization called nxu um and then also right anytime you have a big event you have to feed people so there was also food involved for our presenters our volunteers um and our teachers that assisted us that day so essentially the pop festival was broken um into two parts so the first part was our purpose discovery and that took place throughout four weeks in the month of april and then the second part is our big college and career fair and empowerment workshops which took place um during school hours on april 28th so for purpose discovery um in collaboration with an organization that miss billings and i were connected to through the bezos program um nxu we wanted to provide our students um with a curriculum that really focuses on four different um you know key components of developing your purpose so your identity your strengths your interests and your passions and our hope is that by our students exploring these things they will have a bit more of self-reflection and direction and an idea of what they want to pursue um now and after high school so essentially um before we presented this curriculum to our students um on march 22nd we had like an initial purpose training session with our core team with our match store and our mentor features as well as some of our administrators with nxu via zoom and then we implemented that um that curriculum over the course of four weeks so our students met um in their cafeteria during srt um the freshmen met on mondays the sophomores my dog tuesdays et cetera et cetera on week week one um that was kind of our introduction to purpose and they also explored the concept of identities um week two we explored our interests and our passions week three we did a strength assessment survey and then week four um we developed every student developed a um a purpose statement which mrs billings will get to in a minute um and kind of our incentive that we've you know tried to get our students to recognize was that um you know taking the time to reflect on what they want to do after life is obviously really beneficial but also um the each srt for a grade that had the highest rate of um turn in for their purpose exercises um received sugar peak pregnancy on so a perfect statement just so you have an idea of what our amazing young people came up with as a part of this so it's something that ties together identity factors that matter to you um with your strengths your interests and passions and how you will use those things to meet a need in the world so these were just a few purpose statements taken from our students and you can see they they do all follow right we provide them with that template and that structure so for example that first one as a strong outgoing woman so there's there's the identity pieces she connects with my purpose in life is to use my ability to console and communicate with others combined with my love of helping people to be a paramedic right um yeah so we've got some very specific ones and then we have some broader ones too um our next one is helping others to coexist and talk and discuss peacefully we i love the third one as a motivator leader and athlete my purpose in life is to use my ability to communicate and be a leader combined with my love of sports psychology and family to create a better environment for the brown county athletic program so yeah so after they spent four weeks creating their purpose the college and career fair helps them connect their carpet it gave them the chance to connect their purpose to any like life things that will help them later in life and um during their lunch time there were 30 vocational schools colleges and employers set up including brown county high school alumnus evan razor jasmine enemies and empowerment workshops which they chose from 15 options that fall into three categories information finance and self-care and on your handout you can see a list of facilitators workshops and all the different exhibitors that we're actually watching through yeah can you go back to just one slide so to clarify they had 15 workshop choices they chose five for the day so each student had an individualized schedule of five work workshops of their choice and then also had an hour to explore the college and career fair so um after our festival we had about purpose statements turned in and we had about 368 students um attend the festival on april 28th so in general um we received some pretty positive on student feedback in terms of the college and career fair um uh we so we sent out this survey um like about a week after the um big festival and our students said they wish that there was a bit more representation of the college and career fair in terms of trades arts culinary schools health fields and volunteer organizations as well as private colleges and in terms of the workshops and everyone on the stage to really enjoy them but they wish that they could hear directly from college students and also have more art based skills represented in the workshops that we offered and the purpose development they wish the students wished it was more spread out over the course of the entire year rather than you know all at once uh you know in the month of april and they also wanted um more context as to why um living purpose-driven life was important and why um we were advocating for things that we were advocating for um in terms of our staff feedback again they wish that um our festival was earlier on in the year to avoid um ap prep conflicts and they wish that it was more spread out rather than over the course of about a month we had several staff members say that they wanted to be trained in the purpose development so that they could help their students directly and some staff members said that they wished our festival was more inclusive for our students with learning and mobility differences um in terms of our workshop facilitators um they're very impressed with the logistics of our festival and our communication several of them said that they wish they had something like this when they were in high school and they are very happy to engage with our students in future years yeah and so as far as sustainability goes as i mentioned earlier we have continued funding from the bezos family foundation should this festival continue um we also um are in the process as a district of well i know it's been submitted um our three grant the state uh department of education and so um and christy reitzman has written into that grant um some of the costs of the expanded purpose opportunity curriculum as well as um funds to train staff on that curriculum so that we can we can utilize that more effectively and then additionally in our second year we would also like to look at getting some corporate sponsors and private donors um to help fund expanding the festival and possibly creating some scholarships that are attached to the festival for students that attend the festival um and then we'll talk about students okay so for future grow okay so okay um for future growth we are really hoping to expand this program more and as for our purpose sessions we are it's really for the pending approval of the three grant and we're adopting like the purpose curriculum with nxu and we are hoping to in the future change six staff members to be proficient in their curriculum and support other like smaller classroom teachers and for our college and career first part of it we are a visitor and actually have 50 exhibitors and more volunteer organizations so that students can also participate in that um and then more representation in fields in the different fields as many states earlier and for student involvement we've already had a ton of students say that they would like to be in this next year and on that um survey we set out a lot of people have already signed up um we are very grateful you know for rock county school administration to give us the opportunity to um you know implement this festival it's something that is very near and dear to my heart has been a really great way to end my senior year i wish that i would have had the opportunity to do this my freshman year um and continue to do it all throughout high school miss gillings and i really like this quote and we think that it kind of encompasses our entire festival fdr states we cannot always build a future for our youth but we can build the view for our future and i'm really excited to see um what brown county does with the pop festival after i graduate thank you you're open to any questions very nice i don't have a question but i have a statement and i deeply appreciate the inclusive activity comment from the staff feedback with students being making sure i just want to tell you all that i am so incredibly proud of you um i am excited to see also what the future looks like and how this is going to grow into even bigger outcomes for our kids so thank you i think you can get a freshman you know that end of the spectrum a lot sooner than that really promotes a lot of other things along the chain as i think about that my days in the high school so i wish i had some exposure to certain things i wouldn't not change my mind what i ended up doing but i just think thank you so much well i like that you saw a community need and a school need because this is something that we have been missing for a long time and i i really like this event and i like to see your energy about it but it isn't like oh you know we have to do this it's like this is exciting this is what we ought to be doing and i have often you know i've always been pushing you guys can say this because i had to both in seventh grade but like always looking outside of brown county we have to not be in even outside of indiana we have to not always be like oh i can go to ivy tech tech's great place but we need to be expanding our horizons and getting kids to understand there's a lot of things out there that they can do and but if they're never exposed to it then they're not going to understand those opportunities and so how can we make that real for them and i think you've done a really great job of like putting all that together and saying you know i have a goal in life and this is how i achieve it i just want to add on to that too though i think a big part of this an intention of this is to help our students understand that they can live in purpose here and they can have an impact on their community here too so as much as as much as we want to open doors and all of those things we want them to realize some of those stories can lead to here i'm incredibly proud of the student team so like it's a treat to work with them [Music] ladies and gentle as you well know you don't have to stay for the rest of your weekend next we have discussion items and there are none next we have approval of public session units dated may do i have a motion second a second any discussion roll call carol yes amy yes vicky yes motion carries thank you and next is action needed items at the recommendation to approve the 2022-2023 elementary student handbook do you have a motion to approve the elementary student handbook for 22-23 any discussion carol yes amy yes vicky yes stephanie yes motion carries thank you thanks i have the recommendation to approve the modified lease agreement between brown county schools and human services incorporated to additionally include the leasing of room 118 a as office space with an increase in rent from 800 a month 900 a month beginning the 31st of may 2022 through the 30th of may 2024.

thanks for doing it a discussion following susie being with us uh not quite 10 years but she she was here and left and then came back yeah the last step was like five years so family happy retirement yes uh carol yes amy yes and stephanie yes thank you i have the recommendation to accept the donation of 1 500 for national history day award and teacher of the year awards from brown county do you community foundation motion to receptive donation of fifteen hundred dollars for national history day as presented any discussion thank you so very much the brown county foundation um are these i know the teacher of the year award what is the history award imagine mr austin is not here to report out so i can give you an update that would just be new i mean so any other discussion roll call carol yes amy yes vicky yeah stephanie carey's thank you i have the recommendation to accept the donation of 500 to the brown county high school football program from big woods do you have a motion to accept the donation from the 500 for the football program at the high school second i'll second any discussion does it have to be used for anything in specific anything specific or it says on the request they have no specifications on how to use it is for whatever the program needs okay or within the football room any other discussion will call errol yes amy yes vicky yeah stephanie yes question carries thank you i have the recommendation to appear the donation of 800 to the brown county high school girls softball program from uca distributed you have a motion to accept a donation from uca distributing of 800 to the high school softball girls program i still move any discussion says it's to pay for spirit ware roll call carol yes amy yes vicky yeah stephanie we have consent agenda items we'll start with the separation of brown county middle school master teacher cindy stark effective at the conclusion of the 2021-2022 school year through the transfer of brown county high school junior varsity baseball coach jacob reel to brown county high school assistant varsity baseball coach effective may 19 2022.

she has received various awards for her excellence and achievement over the course of her time at fulton high school including the bausch lomb science award in 2021 taylor's teachers have noted her exceptional dedication leadership skills and compassion for others that will set her up for certain success in the future taylor will be attending the university of connecticut in the fall to study actuarial science taylor congratulations well deserved well done good for you can you say anything taylor thank you looking forward to graduation taylor right yes excellent okay um mr miceli has our valedictorian joined us do you see her on the list anyway i i do not see her on the list so we'll just uh embrace her presence when she arrives okay so can you um let me know when that happens all right cheer bro nails so we're gonna move on at this point if that's okay that's fine we'll be happy to recognize a valedictorian when she shows up if she's able to get away um so the next part of our agenda this evening is comments from the audience is there anyone who would like to make any public comments in the audience this evening [Music] okay not hearing any um do we have any additions to the agenda this evening i do not um okay on to routine business items looking for a motion to approve the minutes of the april 7th 2022 education business meeting so move to ria i can second that chris thank you yeah chris uh are there any questions comments edits to these minutes i'm hearing nothing all those in favor of the motion please say aye hi hi hi um so anyone who's opposed i will abstain as i was not at that meeting um emotion carries uh now we're looking for a motion to approve the minutes of the may 3rd 2022 board of education special meeting thank you chris and maria are there any edits or questions about the these minutes hearing none all those in favor of the motion please say aye hi is there anyone who is opposed or abstaining okay that motion passes as well um onto board of education committee reports tonight the only one we have is curriculum to chris anyone wanna you guys met correct we did i was waiting on sue to jump in since she is the chair i apologize it's a little distracting right now um yes we had a [Music] great sorry i'm just trying to gather my thoughts um we had a presentation on [Music] um chris refresh my memory totally blanking or sarah well do we have a social studies presentation thank you to up do you want me to just go through it okay we we had a an update as to where we are with the k4 social studies presentation uh just to update the board since we had started this project before covid and in transition with a new director of teaching and learning to just give everybody an update as to where we're standing we also had some presentations for new spelling program that will be presented later this evening and a new high school course and an overview of uh work we've done over the years in diversity equity and inclusion i miss anything chris nope oh that was it thank you thank you and sorry about that thank you no problem um okay thank you very much we can move on to bhs student representative reports all um sorry i was taking a test i had to move over okay um since this is my last report i thought i'd talk about how the bolton school system shaped me and my peers to the people who we are today my family and i have been in bolton for about five generations now and one of the reasons why we keep coming back is because of how great the school system is my grandfather he went to school when it was located in a little building on school road and now it's a garage but that's where you went to school and my mom my aunt and most of my cousins went to the elementary school before bcs was built and now my sisters and little cousins are and i are all currently in the school system my sisters and i have been here since preschool and it's changed us all for the better i've made friends and memories that will last a lifetime but more importantly i learned the skills i need to leave the school system and live a successful life the seniors have a task of finding out what our next move in life is going to be and it seems really daunting at first but there's so many ways that all makes it easier firstly my freshman and sophomore year we had college fairs where we learned about different colleges and what they had to offer so it kind of got us thinking about where we might want to go another great thing is that anybody can have a leadership position in bolton no matter what their interests are whether it's a team captain student council national honor society a club leader tutoring or volunteering there's always something that students can do to get involved in bolton has volunteer has volunteering guidelines that we each have to meet before we graduate it usually is 50 hours but with coverage it got modified but we still did have to do some and if we're part of the national honor society we have to get 10 more hours to graduate personally i have been team captain for cross country basketball and basketball for multiple years in the national honor society of vice president and the co-president of the donut club and if you talk to any student they will most likely answer that they have at least one of these leadership decisions one of the reasons that so many students get involved is because of the school size we have a lot more opportunities to get involved because in bigger schools you'd have to run against people and usually we don't have to do that different colleges oh with the college fairs it actually helps us like with what guidance has to do too we all met with guidance at one point or another to talk about college and our future goals and they've been so helpful during this process and it really helps us and make it as smooth as possible there's been many times with myself or others that there were issues with applications or that were just stressed and didn't really know what to do and time and time again the guidance department has always helped us now we're committed to our next destination and whether that be college the military or trade two other senior requirements are taking ap gov or civics during our and doing our senior capstone project taking those classes teaches us about the united states government and how it works and how it was created it puts us right back on track and to make informed decisions in our life the captain project is completed in our senior year and includes a research paper and a project portion where we can put pick whatever topics we want personally my research paper was about different types of working dogs and what they do and how why they're important to the society and my project was to train a therapy dog other people's projects included building rockets coaching teams learning how to compost and learning how to play an instrument it's important because it focused all the it helped us all to be focused and disciplined and even helped us find new connections because of this project i learned so much about dogs and how they act and i even helped teach a therapy dog class and now i have connections with that therapy dog company that i can keep doing when i when i get older along with volunteering all students must also have to complete a job shadow this helps us narrow down what we marry down what we may think we're interested in for a career one day this helped me decide my path by shadowing different people in a medical field an ophthalmologist a physical therapist physicians assistant and acupuncturist the juniors and seniors have an opportunity to also earn ap credits and ece credits which would earn credits for college there are a lot of different topics areas to choose from and there's even more next year the credits will transfer to almost any college and it helps us lessen our course load and have an easier freshman year and even a jump on college most of us are able to take these classes and it also looks really great on our resume great job thank you and very much go back to your test quick good luck um um no he's not here tonight but i do believe we have a parent who was having some technical issues under comments from the audience so i don't know if you want to what you want to do with us that's fine go ahead if you'd like to make a comment you have three minutes oh thank you very much i won't take three minutes um this is sue dinunzio and i'm representing a lot of the senior parents who we were having trouble finding this link and i think that there may not be so many of them that were able to find it we just wanted to to stress our concern about graduation night and we're hearing that there's going to be a limitation to tickets and we're just hoping that um we will you guys will consider extending the tickets from six to to more than that considering that graduation's outside so just so you know um thank you for the comment um it's not a question and answer period that's not what's allowed under commentary so thank you for the commentary and i'm certain that uh mr miscella will be reaching out uh thank you and i know that there are other parents who who also wanted to share their their concern about that so is it is it recommended that we reach out to mr miceli or the board of ed or who well i think we gotta go ahead and i would say all the above but okay all right thank you thanks thank you okay um let's move along um community meeting reports has anyone been to any meetings that they'd like to share all right i can go um attended the bolton scholarship fund meeting uh in april no may sorry keep getting confused because we changed our date to the first wednesday of the month uh so the may meeting uh was the most recent one um [Music] our applications uh have been closed for this year's scholarships so we're now in the process of reviewing applications and making determinations and the scholarship awards will be announced at graduation this year i also wanted to bring up under community meeting reports i know several several of us attended the public hearing on the budget but i just wanted to mention that one of the comments that was made during the budget hearing related to the issue of the student population in bolton public schools and the fact that it has been going down we were challenged by the townsperson who made the comment to come up with a plan on how we were going to address this issue of continuing uh declining enrollments so i would certainly want to encourage my fellow board members to look into that further at a future meeting it is an issue that i've also been concerned about and i think we owe it to the taxpayers to be looking at it seriously that's all thank you chris um we can consider that for future um i guess also there was another community meeting which was a town meeting where we took some money that had been for um door locks and applied it to our septic failing septic system so that passed um was there any other community meetings anyone else can think of okay hearing nothing i'll turn things over to the superintendent for the superintendent of schools reports mrs hecht if i may uh our valedictorian has arrived excellent thank you all right we're gonna hi sam how'd it go did we win we won five to four last inning come back awesome that's awesome that's a great day all right so everybody it is my pleasure and my honor to introduce to all of you the 2022 bulletin high school valedictorian samantha sondik congrats sam so sam has involved herself in many aspects of bolton high school from being captain of the varsity softball team to co-chair biggs and littles program as well as participating in national honor society and serving on various school committees sam is committed to equality and inclusion and has spent her school career volunteering with various local and national social justice organizations she has been the recipient of the frederick douglass and susan b anthony award the joseph shanahan u.s history award as well as other awards for excellence and leadership sam's teachers have all spoken of her honesty determination and passion that will help her succeed in the future sam will be attending smith college in the fall to study government and spanish sam you worked very hard and this is a well-deserved honor congratulations good for you sam um just thank you to the staff and uh board of ed and all the teachers who made it possible for me to achieve so much i can't thank you enough thank you good job thank you congratulations again all right now we're going to move to superintendent of schools report if i could please and our first up is a math curriculum update and i'm going to turn it over to uh mrs malinowski good evening everyone uh as uh mr misali is getting this up we are on uh a every five years we take a closer look at various curricula throughout the district and this year we took a closer look at our math curricula and this is a more complete update of what has changed over the past five years since our last big report with me this evening i see uh the alicia rose is our six through eight core leader who's been able to make it this evening as is diana mkhilochi i saw on the chat but i'm sorry my screens have changed and remain rene midford i'm not sure if she could make it this evening renee is the academic core leader for high school and diana is our k5 leader tremendous team and we are very grateful for all the hard work that they do in guiding us and helping make decisions next slide please beginning at the high school and i will just say that i am happy to report that we are feeling comfortable comfortable in all at all levels about being aligned to our connecticut core standards as we know this was a year of re-engaging with academics and school and that has been a close study at all levels so i won't keep repeating myself we also at the high school have to consider other national standards such as ap course standards and at this time our yukon ece standards we have two courses that we've taken up over since we've met a few years ago calculus and statistics and this evening we will be proposing a third class uconn elementary discrete mathematics the students in high school who receive college credit for um ap when they pass an exam their exam at a specific score and is that the discretion of uh the colleges if they choose to accept that credit where a yukon ece course uconn guarantees that credit with the passing grade so it's it's excellent the amount of work that our teachers and department have put in to offer more opportunities for our students to receive these credits and have some some options for being such a small department and small district and i do have to say to be uconn ece teacher you must get approved by the college so it is not just oh hey we want to do this there are extra steps so i'm very grateful for our teachers who are willing to step up for that and of course ap has its own training as well at um our status we're always on ongoing revisions looking how we can better our curriculum and our instruction as we move along we are now at the point of being able to be current with post pandemic status where we are with our topics uh and continuing on to align with transferable skills and bolton's portrait of a graduate in grades 12 10 through 12 you can see the list of our electives that we also offer and moving on to grades eight six through eight so six through eight during their pandemic years uh did roll into a new program the ready program which was a continuation of the k through five program grade six uh had a partial rollout and truly a full rollout this year and seventh grade also rolled out ready eighth grade uh they the directive was to start the training however our eighth grade teacher dove in and has also rolled out for our non-algebra course ready as well it's been a tremendous resource and we've been working on revising the units in atlas to to align with the program and certainly the teachers were able to attend pd for the program always looking at sbac and making sure our work aligns with that analyzing our data at bcs we have the opportunity for the win time the what i need now and the ready program what's wonderful about it and for families who've seen it at home it has a robust online portion which allows students to have a personalized path which is called my path which aligns with their assessments and what the teachers are seeing and then on go moving on to k5 this is our third year with ready math as our main resource this year we really spent a lot of time looking at fact fluency and our instructional practices with best practices and a few new supplemental online programs to help us with that as well as utilizing my path and the ongoing work again continues with uh the work in our atlas and this year was a big focus on assessments and revisiting our practices and how we consider our big ideas and learning targets for each unit and because of covid especially in the k5 world we've had to revisit the unit sequence again in its alignment and we are feeling confident that we are feeling more pre-demo pre-pandemic-like than i was able to report last year uh is there anything that i've missed from my few academic leaders who are here or any of the building administrators who support us in this tremendous work hearing none i do want to thank them we really can't do that this work without this extra effort this is a stipended position outside of school hours and we are very grateful for the energy and the learning and the professionalism of our leaders and the ongoing support of our building administration so thank you very much and that concludes my report on math thank you any questions for sarah or the leaders or principles on this okay hearing goodness thank you sarah very much i'm going to turn it over to mr giard for an update from bcs good evening um cover three things tonight end of year events a little bit of information about eighth grade promotion and then we'll end with the talking about the successful student-led conferences for end-of-year events we're currently finishing up smarter balanced testing uh with a few makeups left to complete everything has gone very well technology every kid's using their chromebooks don't you know what i mean you're always a little on edge but everything went perfectly and we have a few makeup so we're going to finish the end of next week our fifth and eighth graders um still have ngss testing that's going to take place on may 24th and that is a one day science test we then jump into june full steam with two parent events on june 1st which is the incoming kindergarten parent uh meeting at 6 pm on june 1st and then the 5th to 6th grade transition meeting which is at 7 p.m also on june 1st both events were held via zoom last year and it was overwhelming response from parents that they want to even post pandemic when we get to that point to keep it via zoom so we're going to try it again this year on june 10th we will have our academic awards assembly which is for grades five through eight and that's going to be at 9 15 a.m and that's on june 10th last year we did it via zoom as well and got some good feedback and we're going to have it on zoom again this year and the last day of school is june 15th our promotion plan uh the eighth graders are extremely excited we have some end of the year activities coming up uh promotion is scheduled for june 14th at 10 a.m at the high school and a huge thank you to mr miceli mr bachmovich and the bhs custodians for hosting uh bcs again this year at the high school because it's an undertaking to get everything set up for that early in the morning and to have us over the day before for practice so a big thank you to them uh like i said the promotion will be at 10 a.m it's a ticketed event and we'll have a photographer it'll be recorded and also streamed on youtube the ring date is going to be the same time on june 15th same time and location uh student-led conferences we were actually able to see it through this year we had we were just about to implement them in march of 2020 before the pandemic hit and we were able to see it through this year we had the actual conferences uh via zoom which went really well and that was on march 17th and 18th we had 98 of students run their own student-led conference with their crew leader and their parent or guardian present the students reviewed the goals they created in the fall and the work samples that they collected that supported their work towards their goals the goals included two academic goals a habit of work goal and a transferable skill goal the goal is directly connected to the portrait of the graduate and the work that we're doing at the building level we surveyed after student conferences both the students and the parents to get some meaningful feedback so we can even better next year we had 48 parent responses on the survey with 81 percent of the parents saying that they felt that the student-led conferences helped them to understand their child's strengths and challenges at a as a learner so i thought that was an extremely uh great feedback the 81 percent of parents felt that they uh saw a meaning in the student conference uh on another question 83 of parents selected that they either agreed or strongly agreed that they had a positive experience with student conferences on the student survey we had 163 responses and 132 of the 163 which is 81 of the students said that they put their best effort into preparation for the student led conference and 60 felt that they understood themselves better as a student and learner because of this process uh there were also open-ended questions for both parents and students and we're reviewing those responses we already have some great ideas to build and be better for next year and we put together a short video that mr miceli is going to queue up in a second that highlights the student led conferences and i hope you enjoy all right mr g i think i've got it wave me off if you can't hear it though no volume we're not hearing anything okay no problem i think i know what it is welcome back friends i'm here to tell you what i am great at proud of and how i grew this year i will share a habit of work and scholarship a transferable skill one strength and one area of focus at the end of my conference i will give you a chance to ask any questions you may have and i will ask you for some feedback so we've been working on a presentation and collecting work samples for a while and now i get to present it to my parents and to show them what i've been working on and how i've been doing student-led conferences with the concept that came out of building the portrait of a graduate and building student ownership of their learning and the learning process and they set four goals throughout the year and they collected work that they're already doing in their classes connected to it so saying what was the objective of the project the feedback they received from the teacher the growth that they've experienced that's where the value in this comes from is that they're telling you the story behind the assignment or the work connected to that goal and how they grew in that area thank you mr osborne for joining us remotely i can tell a student that maybe he's waiting last minute or something like that and that goes right over his head but when he has to reflect about what his grades are like and what his work habits are like and how he can improve that is going to stick with him much more than just teach intel academy i think it was great it's nice to hear from her perspective how she's doing um ultimately you know if she doesn't feel she's doing well on something i want to hear that her not necessarily from her teacher um she needs to be accountable for her learning which she definitely is and that will only help her improve um next year as you know the independence and learning and expectation will become greater if she goes to high school so i know that if i have questions for a teacher dan and i can call and find a time to have a meeting with any of her teachers if we need to but again i just feel like it's so important for her to be able to tell me how she's doing and be proud of that or be honest you know i need to improve in this area that intrinsic motivation to improve and learn is is really important for students [Music] they were virtual it's just that mrs osborne works in the school so that one actually wasn't persons uh but the rest were via zoom it was a great event thank you any questions for daryl great job thank you all right on to curriculum update and i'm going to turn it back over to ms malinowski oh no i'm sorry i'm turning it over to mr miceli for a bold high school update sorry no problem uh first i wanted to personally thank emily for her detailed reflection and a short explanation she was not interrupting a bolton high school test uh she like a handful of other bolton high school students this year and in the past years have taken upon themselves to take the emt course so emily actually stepped out of her emt course was she taking it uh to present to you tonight because uh she needed to keep up with that work so i'm really proud of of everything that she's doing there too and i think she really captured where our class of 2022 is right now they've been an amazing group of students keeping up a great attitude even in the in the face of some difficult years just a quick note to throw out about class of 2023 as you all know we do have our students participate in standardized testing including the psat and the sat one of the components of the grade 10 psat is the possibility of being recognized as a national merit scholar although we don't know of any of our current juniors we'll be finalists we do know that some of them qualified as semi-finalists and as i mentioned that because the semi-finalists actually means they scored in the top three percent of all students in the nation taking that test um sometimes we have one semi-finalist rarely we've had two um this year we had four um so fingers crossed that at least uh some of those for members of the class of 2023 are named as finalists and i'll update the board on that um a few months ago our grade nine teachers presented to you about team 25 uh we're so happy with how that new model to support incoming students work this year we are continuing that model with the class of 2026 with a few modifications things that we've learned our grade 9 teachers have already begun communicating with the grade 8 teachers at the center school and we are excited about official 2026 kickoff day which we have scheduled for august the week before school opens and as we rapidly approach the one month mark to graduation we are getting ready um we're going to use a similar format as we did last year incorporating scholarships and awards into that outdoor ceremony for commencement um and i have been coordinating with bolton scholarship foundation and projection project graduation families uh to make that all happen and we plan on live streaming that event on the bhs youtube channel thank you any questions from mr miscellany okay hearing none now i'm on to mrs malinowski again for the curriculum update for the last time for the last time yes thank you so hopefully every board member was able to get a packet that looks like this is just a clip of what you should have in your pocket which is a about two and a half page update for each content area as to where we stand with standards and assessments and some of our practices i'm happy to report that as always and even this year which i know at various times throughout this year it has been a challenging year to keep up with every level of professional responsibility and our teachers yet again um just rose to the challenge of making sure they were able to keep up with checking in with where we are with curriculum updating making sure our documents and our resources are reflecting what it's like to be back in person versus where we were with kovid we tried to document that so as things shifted and changed throughout uh that we were able to have record uh for so that it's fair and equitable and everybody could see where we are within the district and we can provide our best practices for the kiddos uh so throughout each one i've identified the standards that the different content areas are aligned with and then the different assessments that go along with the different contents also added and i kept from last year's report because it's worth recognizing as then the number of online resources that we now implement for assessment practices especially some of them which are also instructional uh but the teachers and the did go through and add which ones they really do use for their assessment practices one of the silver linings of our remote time and and covid has been this tremendous understanding of of things such as jamboard google forms and now how do we use that appropriately so that when is it best to do something through handwriting and through more uh pre-pandemic styles versus piece um some of the platforms that are responsive and give immediate feedback to the students so for each content area we also added the online resources which again are greatly supported by the board's budget and we thank you for that ongoing support and i do thank our teachers for being very thoughtful uh through this process so instead of going through every single one are there any questions that the board may have for me monica is on the call and is ready to take over the reins we've been able to meet and um so thank you very much for your support with this ongoing curriculum work thank you sarah very much for the last curriculum update that you will give in your very amazing career and now on to your last professional learning summary great so going on to uh the work that we continue to do the chart again this is a a snip of the document that was sent to the board members of the various types of professional learning that our staff engaged with this year all of our professional learning uh is aligned to goals our both district goals school goals you know and certainly our goals have to be responsive to when there are mandates so some of the things might be more mandate driven but that's very few and far between and no we need to be responsive to the state and so on some level we are responding to our goals in that way uh the majority of all pd this year remain to be virtual for obvious reasons and in that way some pla some pd was actually more available because they became late afternoon short meetings versus a full day or having to leave to go to a meeting i anticipate next year we'll see some of our partners such as crack and the other rests around the straight state offering pd opportunities in a virtual format when they're short and that opens up some doors for our teachers and administrators as learners uh there has been a slow transition to a few in-person pd opportunities and next year we anticipate that we will you know fingers crossed everything goes in that direction we'll be seeing more opportunities for that so again i really do want to thank the board and the community for their ongoing support of the teachers and their learning so that we are able to provide the best education possible for all students here so with that any questions about anything on our professional learning again thank you very much and i have to say as that is my final report about curriculum professional development which is a huge part of my role i am very grateful to this board and to the town for the amazing support uh for the learning of our teachers because it really does show how the students are the total focus so again thank you thank you sarah very much and finally our strategic plan update for the year all right kristen you saved everything for the last for me huh i did sarah it's a whole bowl of wax here all right well that's okay because uh joe and daryl are going to help which you know can't do any of this work without our partners here so uh as always our work is grounded in our portrait of a graduate and our strategic goals and um which are highlighted here so at the our first goal focusing on student success uh at all levels the pk12 we focused on all the bulleted items that are listed here and this has really been accomplished through the embedded pd and learning that we just looked at and again the support of the the board and the town for our eight early release days that allows us to do much of this very important work turning it over to mr miceli uh thank you so some of the things that we worked on this year was you know that flexible time that we call connections um we kind of always take a peek at how we can improve that that was part of our our work this year um we actually have an ongoing revision of capstone capstone looked different this year than it did last year and next year there's already some changes that we're making that you know we think are going to improve things uh primarily um the biggest thing that our board members might notice is that it's starting sooner um the pathways uh for responsive intervention rti to you know focus on credit recovery mastery and support you know in all areas really making use of all the resources we have to support students uh and the continued implementation of that you know all that digital work that sarah referred to earlier and the team 25 work that i mentioned earlier and all the bullets listed for bcs under student success have been ongoing and year long throughout the year we've collaborated with vhs to ensure a successful transition for our eighth grade students to ninth grade as you heard earlier we recently completed our spring student-led conferences and are in the final stages of gathering more feedback from students and families so we can make it even more meaningful next year we continue to utilize our pbis team and school-wide expectations to guide our work and making bcs a positive learning environment and lastly k-5 teachers have done an amazing job this year and the saffron has been an integral part of that work as well continuing to work hard on their development of clear learning intentions and success criteria um all this work supports um the student learning and towards specific standards as evidenced by our standards-based report cards and connects directly with our bps portrait of a graduate our goal too is about creating a caring culture foster responsive caring and inclusive culture and a collaborative relationship so again at the district level excuse me all of our activities have been ongoing and these are what you see pk12 very similar to what was presented at mid-year and then dhs and bcs will report more specifically you know so you know the caring piece you know is also interwoven into those those big structural pieces that we have in the school that flexible connections piece um we did all sorts of you know not just academic activities but uh you know other things to support students during the the tricky times uh and that team 25 piece um again wasn't just academic support with social emotional support um and even a huge boost in communication of parents uh with the newsletters that they did every month and at bcs uh we take obviously the similar the high school tremendous pride in our caring culture that we've established and we work hard to build upon that work that we've done in the past uh we have done this by continuing to include inclusive language and titles in our classrooms uh through building teacher-student relationships with learning experiences like the student-led conferences and by encouraging students to think and explore uh their future at bhs and beyond with our eighth grade career day which is tomorrow and by other interest building activities as well so we're super excited about the career day tomorrow and ucs is a special place our third goal uh talent development uh i've spoken to this already in many ways can't do this work without our academic leaders uh our administrative team this really is a a collaborative effort and um no kidding aside this year has been been a challenge to make sure we're carving out that time and continuing our learning and i again thank everybody and especially the the motivation to continue learning through these times we do have a ongoing pd calendar that for the past two years we've left it more flexible than set just to be responsive to our needs but the plcs at each building are aligned and also flexible for what needs are going on in the building but always with an eye to our district goals and building goals another piece is team i have to say we have quite a few new teachers and the team program is a required program but it is also part of a pd opportunity where teachers are able to visit each other's classrooms they it's very reflective so we are very active in the team program and uh we have a very supportive district-wide p-deck committee at both buildings one key piece has been this revised plc schedule and structure as i had mentioned earlier this has been the year to be responsive you know at the middle level daryl really needing to dig in and make sure those student-led conferences happen along with all of the other work and the high school to to address the ever-changing needs of as we get back to this post-pandemic school so that has been an ongoing work uh so sometimes we give these very big picture ideas and so we're gonna take a pause in this presentation to highlight something that's very important to all of the administrators and teachers in this district about diversity equity and inclusion and our work while we are talking about this strategic plan was part of our last strategic plan that has been a goal an embedded goal in everything that we've been doing and so our professional learning that happened prior to 2020 and some of it still ongoing has included the master report approach and you can see our topics with our supporting organizations so this is not learning that we just pick a random group these are very highly recognized and vetted groups reputable um and the nice thing about it there's been some long ongoing relationships so it is not the many many years ago i know when i started teaching uh you know you get the one and done and that's it for your for your pd these have been this has been ongoing and i i do want to emphasize that so as you can see our topics that you've heard at many board meetings mastery approach portrait of a graduate culturally responsive practices student engaged assessments the workshop model and i do want to say a workshop model and that's k-12 we've looked at that not just as an elementary practice there have been open choice book clubs and there's the support of from crap from being part of open choice and as mentioned before team module 5.

so it's 7 times forty thousand is two eighty plus twenty thousand so that's the bulk of the four hundred fifty thousand dollar reduction we didn't recommend any changes to the non-certified salary line um we were able to reduce the pension retirement line by 66 409 because after we had submitted the budget we did get an update from the actuaries on the town pension funding requirement and so it's 66 409 lower than we went into the budget knowing about so that that is a definite pickup that's helpful towards the 450 000 reduction we took five thousand dollars from instructional expense from our pupil services line but that line is still going up 90 166 for the year then we removed 78 591 from support services across a variety of the line items in that category and did not um make any changes to the maintenance and operations budget which we believe you know is is and and was very tight because of you know not only the needs of of our building repairs but mostly because our utility costs you know which have increased you know due to inflation and the increase in in oil prices so we didn't want to touch the maintenance budget so that that is the recommendation that was put forth by the finance committee again the board members have the detail in their um package so i'll stop there to see if there are any questions i know the board does have a motion that they could put forth um before we move into any discussion or questions i'll just um i'll make the motion so we can just officially answer the discussion um a move that the cheshire board of education approves an operational budget for the fiscal year 2022-2023 of 80 million 664 420 as appropriated by the town council representing a reduction of 450 000 from the board of education's recommended budget do i have a second on that motion second andrew thank you now we can move to discussion tim thank you adam yeah so an observation uh on this just looking forward a year if we are fortunate enough and oil prices drop the utility prices drop in some way i i'm not i'm not particularly fond of uh reducing the pension funding i i have my when i see what's happening with the markets and stuff and i've never really been a fan of how it gets funded i'm guessing that we're not 100 funded at this point right no but the contribution we make to the town pension is based on what the actuaries recommend and yeah i if you i don't want to guess but we're somewhere north of 80 i was going to say 80 or even 70 with the market going down but i know it's not it's not really tied to the market the wall street it's there's a lot of uh alternative investments in there which would include stuff like real estate which might be way up but then it could go way down anyway just generally um if we do save on any of that i personally would my hope is some of that money savings from the utilities which is not getting touched here would end up going back into the um pensions it just concerns me it always um so that's just a general comment a question so i'm looking at the certified salaries and this is uh i feel like that's a routine question every year the teachers we have 300 350 or 400 teachers a certain most of them stay for 30 years some of them retire and you can kind of estimate the savings with the number of teachers that are leaving with regard to our non-certified personnel do any of them in large numbers stay for 30 years or is it a higher turnover than that 2 years five years ten years where you just have where you have the constant turnover so you can't really look at it from a budgetary perspective it's just baked into the budget anyway it's not like you have people leaving at the end of the year that are making a significant salary or benefits well you know certainly from a salary size you know a certified staff whether it's teachers or administrators those are the highest paid individuals in the district you know as far as you know do they do they stay and are they replaced with someone at a lower step it doesn't work that way in the non-certified we don't have those 14 steps the most we have in any of these bargaining units is five steps and that's the secretary's union okay so you don't have the same impact when you get a retirement in the non-certified salaries and we do have employees that you know do give us 25 30 and even more years of service than that but it's not i mean if the teachers just say the teachers are 90 of them and i don't know if this is true but say 90 of them get to 30 years it's not 90 of non-certified getting to 30 years i'm gonna guess that it's not but i've never looked at okay at that gotcha and the numbers are also smaller anyway they get paid less than the teachers okay um i had one more question i can't think of it i didn't jot it down but i'll i'll give it back for right now man can you just click i'm looking at the seven retirements one resignation so this is just a differential between we are filling the positions but at a lower pay scale yeah so you're going from a top step in pressure it's 14 step 14 so roughly going from a hundred thousand we're assuming a sixty thousand dollars okay higher you know so step three or four is what the assumption is based on okay thank you yeah and this by the way this this teacher salary line does include you know the three and a half additional teachers that were added that we need for next year's enrollment increase thank you mr grippo so i apologize i was not able to make those budget meetings so i'm hoping that mr matiana can you tell us what the town council found wrong with our budget or over budgeted in our budget i know that we put our budget together in january and there's a lot of information that comes in after that but i'm always interested in knowing from the town side where they see are where they see that we can give up 450 000 from our budget that was very lean in my opinion uh to begin with that's a um tricky question to answer the way you asked it however the um you know i i don't know i don't think the council found anything wrong per se in our budget and the town council i know that that you know and the board members know the town council's authority is to reduce our budget but not what line items to reduce uh in discussions with the council and and dr solon and i did meet with the town council a couple of times you know it was made clear that you know we entered uh and submitted a budget that was very lean because of the medical benefits funding that we needed to increase and we knew that and um you know again dr sullin did a very good job of explaining and highlighting how many of our accounts were actually zeroed out in our request to the council and i think at the end of the day the the simplest way to explain it is the the town council for the overall budget for the town needed to achieve a number that they felt would not impact the taxpayers more than they thought it should so i you know again i don't know that they found anything wrong with the budget but they handed down a 450 000 reduction and and it's you know the board's you know requirement to to meet that reduction so we do the best we can in administration to come up with the recommendation that will impact student learning the least um and you know manage to the number thank you for that answer i just so you know it wasn't meant to trick you i know that it's meant to just illustrate this idea that this this is an arbitrary number that gets slashed every year from our budget that we that we deem is necessary to operate at um at a level that we need to operate at so thank you you're welcome yeah and i'll just say when i was on the council and being here on the board uh i would add i advocate for boards of ed being their own taxing authority i think it makes more sense it really i don't feel like it there's there's a there's a disconnect between the town taxing for the schools i think new york state i believe boards of education tax they are a taxing authority um i think that makes more sense the the question i have uh for adam um finance committee looking at uh you know we're talking about school modernization student growth you're going to put it on the agenda at some point about reviewing future staffing levels just starting that conversation just wondering if that i don't know if you mentioned that here tonight or if it's yeah um i was actually going to discuss it after the vote so oh [Laughter] okay sorry yeah i'll talk about it after um are there any other questions or any other questions or discussion about the emotion on the floor okay um uh seeing no other discussion i'll just uh read the motion one more time motion for consideration is that the cheshire board of education approves an operating budget for the fiscal year 2022-2023 of 80 million 664 thousand 420 as appropriated by the town council representing a reduction of 450 000 from the board of education's recommended budget um all in favor uh opposed abstain okay great so that's uh five four one abstain okay great thank you um uh yeah so uh to sort of uh acknowledge to answer your question from before uh in the discussion um so the uh the uh at the end of our uh finance meeting the the finance committee decided that we're going to meet um two more times this year one time in august and one time in november um in august um dr sullin and mr masiana are going to prepare financials as to what our um i guess physical situation will look like um if our our proposed next generation plan does not pass referendum and what that would mean as far as having to purchase trailers to um to be able to accommodate the the additional um influx of students that were anticipating um and the cost and you know where possibly where they would be and you know sort of the options that we would have as far as that goes and so that that's going to be our main topic for august um in november um you know we'll have a i guess a more clear picture uh for uh for future planning and we're going to kind of maybe start working through like a sort of like a 10 year plan and see where what sort of uh staffing we're going to need to accommodate for this population increase it what's that's going to look like and and we're also examining any potential um new uh curriculum initiatives or program initiatives of such as perhaps uh a language or or things like that so that what that's going to look look like from a cost perspective to be able to work that into our budget uh going forward as well so that's sort of our our thoughts um you know going forward so thank you um i think that's kind of what we had that's what we had discussed at that tail end of the meeting there um and so uh let's see i have here to ask miss miss solano to speak about grant activity sure so the board members have a packet in front of them um a sheet that's entitled grants report end of year 2021 2022 looks like this so i'll provide an overview of these grants most of these grants are two-year grants so you can see we've and i won't go through line by line but i'll with the numbers you can read that on your own but let me just provide an overview on what some of these grants are so we have our title grants title one and two used a lot for uh supplies and defraying the cost of salaries deferring the cost of some ia supports as well title iii is used for support and training around our english learners we do some consultation with aces to directly train our teachers in the variety of services that can be directly given to students within the classroom you're familiar with our perkins career in tech ed um grants which again helped to defray costs in that area and have been used in the past to buy some equipment and make some updates in the cte departments also on some occasions for some curriculum writing the supplemental enhancement grant we was not available but we are applying for the next one that is available and i know that sean mcewen is currently working on that our ida grants have to do with special education a lot of that money is used for salaries again ias especially on the certified side some of the arp money was used for tutoring also for in-service for rentals supplies etc open choice is a grant that we get through our students who are coming from new haven that district pays us a small small stipend per student for the students that come into our district and we use that to support activities and resources etc that students through the open choice program may need adult education that is our mandated programs which currently ryan murphy is handling and managing that we again defray the costs for resources and training and software things that we need to run that program peck jones we had 27 000 that was used for library books that we've spoken at at length about in the past we did not apply for to use any of that money um this current year we felt that with the um esser grants that we were able to cover a lot of ground smart start again funds our preschool programs at darcy you see we have the esser cares act which was shared with some of the private schools in district again we've talked about that in large part in the beginning was spent on ppe but also some of the other schools used it in training the sr2 and sr3 cares act again you've heard a lot about our bounce forward plan and how we use that money both for our coaches increased administrative support summer transition program tutoring providing intervention and also getting some of our teachers up to speed with t cell certification regarding our increase in english learners and that's really the overview of all of our grants i feel ignorant right now what where is the web school so i'm looking just so people at home are following this there's a list here and it says cheshire public schools cheshire academy saint bridget's i know um the web the web school is in our nexus um location i'm not sure jarvis okay yeah what grades is it or is it college okay oh okay okay i got it all right i understand thank you um marlene the um in regards to the sr-3 funding um so is that showing the year that we took the money in even though it's spread out like over i think what through two or three years is that kind of how it's represented here so we applied for that money um and have it earmarked but we we're spending it in stages based on what we need it for thank you you're welcome um are there any other questions from early um i just the disaster funds it's a lot of money and um it's it's spreading out over a few years are we going to be able to sunset the programs that we are funding or are we going to become dependent on is this going to find its way a permanent place in our budget well i think that's what the bounce forward plan was really about was about really putting the money into our current teachers and and really raising the tide and making sure that we're investing in our current teachers and the people that we have here so that once the money runs out we have something to show for it so we didn't hire a lot of staff in that regard we really did a lot of training so in in some cases um for example you know a math coach at the middle school that had been something that was on our wish list and something we moved forward with but we put that in place again because of the needs around you know learning loss and we were able to move some of that money in this direction so you know i think that would be evaluated at the end of the the grant too i think the other item that is a consideration in the factoring here is the enrollment increase that's projected to and what would that look like we're trying to stretch out the resource as long as we possibly can and they've been kind of talked to that earlier but um at the end of that journey we're trying to make that journey really long on the federal support that we have coupled with a strong emphasis on raising capacity over just hiring people um so i think we you know the board we thought that that was really prudent i think it's two years ago believe it or not that we were just first discussing this and that that'll run a five-year span by the time it's said and done so i think we're in a pretty good place around that and i think we've asked this before but these funds are it's not yeah any other questions okay great um are there any other questions in regards to any of the items in the finance committee report this evening all right seeing none we'll uh move on from finance um we had an item on the uh jennifer uh uh personnel and we are going to be postponing that right okay um we do not have to table that or anything so there's nothing to report at this time basically right correct okay okay so we'll move to planning and school modernization sure um kind of a big update but uh on may 10 the town council unanimously approved three resolutions forwarding the projects to the next level um and allowing the board of education to apply to the state for the actual grant on june 30th for filing the application with the state oscgr on june 30th moving the projects forward so it was a pretty um monumental night there were some members here from the board of education as well as town council um for as town council approved that um so unanimously approved that was that was great um also if you i'm sure everyone here knows this but for those listening at home um oddly in the state budget our reimbursement rate went from 35 for new construction to 50 um in the budget so now all these projects it's going to represent about 20 million dollars in savings to to the town um based on the approved based on the discussed budget for the new school construction project what else june 30 we're set there's going to be additional discussion on june 1st with the potential adopting the actual cost for the project um and then moving forward with the application on june 30th i have to give a shout out to the superintendent he's really put a road show together going to every um meeting of every local board and body possible i'm pumping the project it's going to be in the parade um pushing for a vote um when it goes reference referendum in november enough you want to add any sure i can take up uh yeah thank you and i i want to um thank marlene too who has been joining me as part of the roadshow act uh and we have covered a number of places just wrote a quick list down the library board of directors there was a dodd day festival we went to uh last saturday we've hit highland dodd and do little ptos in the last two weeks i think that covers all of them actually we've been to all of them we went we had a school business partnership in thank you andrew and uh collectively with the economic development council is part of that uh as well we as you said would we'll be in the memorial day parade um there's a board to so look for us to be honoring our veterans that day and passing out some information on the project i've also solicited chs juniors for a social media intern um tick tock isn't my thing if you follow me on instagram thank you but we need i need to up my game um particularly as we get out more information and uh as soon as i sent the video out to our juniors and i shared it with marlene she said well i want an intern too so um we have 15 students that uh expressed interest in helping us with social media and i know they'll be instrumental in us communicating with the broader community for our you know not only our referendum but beyond so that's it for me on school modernization i actually should include that uh the executive committee meeting uh took place yesterday with uh leadership from the town and town council uh and you know we're trying to nail down specific language for the referendum and what the uh i've i know i've had some questions from the board about what the non-advocacy period means and everything so um vinon and i uh will be representing the board at a meeting with oscgr on the 23rd of may just kind of nail down the last bits before we move on here so looking forward to that same good i just um kind of where are we with the building committee establishing that group so um there's a a process that the council wanted to engage in where they would identify individuals representatives from the board of education and representatives from the council to select that committee that you're speaking of to to solicit and select those members our advisors and colliers have been pretty clear about having a small committee that would be dedicated to this group over the course of four years that it would be important that they have you know a decent degree of project and or building experience as they'll be kind of guiding you know two schools over the course of that time and so the the i think the plan was to kind of discuss that project that the council would discuss that project at their june 9th uh council meeting is that fair andrew yeah andrew i thought i heard you say the referendum in november is that locked down is that what the council said they want to do at this point it'll be locked down when the council passes a resolution which we anticipate is happening june 1st all right so let me rephrase it it's not by virtue of a vote yet but is that what they're going with there's a november referendum okay so this so that means it's we're looking at opening in the 25 26 year if everything happened 26 20 26 huh august of 2026 so 26 27 okay so this was the discussion that sort of john my loan was leading talking about if we could shave a few months off and we're saying we're not going to bother with it we're just going to go with a november referendum and or is it possible to run parallel tracks and get that expedited i don't i don't recall exactly i'm just curious if you could speak to it yeah go ahead well what i was going to say is the referendum date doesn't impact the application date which is the more important date um so june 30th we will still be able to submit the application november we hold a referendum that doesn't affect the timing of the project that's right to the extent that we can start doing some work in advance of the referendum that can be done such as preparing a request for proposal for architects so that the day after the vote is held if it referendum passes then the building committee can get to work very very quickly on hiring the architect to begin the design work for example because we already did the process of issuing the rfq getting their getting their qualifications in reviewing everything town supports it say they do and then that day they can you're the one we want we already know it so okay okay great thank you welcome yeah the motion that was approved i'll just read it i have it right here by the town council was um can i read emotion like this yeah i mean okay reporting okay um be resolved at the time of council authorize the cheshire board of education to apply to the commissioner of administrative services and to accept or reject a grant for the construction of a new so there's one says nora and the other one says north end and be a further result that a school's next generation building committee is hereby established as a building committee with regard to construction of a new northern elementary school with members to be determined we have further resolved that the town council authorizes preparation schematic drawings and outline specifications for construction of a new norah elementary school there's the same resolution also for north end um so andrew you briefly mentioned your report that our reimbursement rate went up from 35 to 50 that's um kind of a big deal um do we know how that came about and has oscgr had any comment on that as far as will that change um qual you know how they look at our qualifying spaces or is there any other changes that might happen because of that change so state representative liz linehan and courtney cullen and i believe were the two that pushed for that on the state side when it was included in the budget um so state rep was there to discuss how it all came to be and kind of walked through what it means um so it's 50 for both new construction and for renovation um i don't know how oscr is going to look at i think we have a meeting um on 20 i believe it's the 24th not the 23rd right yes i think you're right there at the uh on the 24th the um this is not unprecedented that it be a legislative change in the reimbursement rate uh farmington meridian others have gone through that i think vin and i were looking at a couple other towns that also had the same thing so um they went to 60 percent in two towns that we were looking at so it's not unprecedented um it's it is you know short-lived and so you know i think there adds a level of urgency for us to act if we are to secure that reimbursement rate i mean at the estimated construction cost now it's going to save 20 million dollars so it's a huge it's a huge benefit to the community um yeah and i i looking back on past projects i think the last time we had a reimbursement rate that high i think was in the 1970s when we we put the first edition on to the high school i think of something like 60 or 70 back then so um thank you to our legislative team for really helping progress this project forward it's a real opportunity for us and i hope that we can make good use of it um any anything else from your report or questions or comments okay thanks great um are there i don't think there are any other standing committees so um yes yeah just one point on the personnel i don't know if uh jeff you might be able to speak to this so we're gonna have a personnel committee meeting uh regarding your annual review uh tuesday may 31st do you happen to know if tony was leaning toward a full board meeting or just the personnel uh he was he was definitely looking for a full board meeting there a full full crew i did um awaiting some responses on that okay in terms of availability i sent out the calendar invite on that one okay yeah and just for the public who's watching and my expectation is this is going to be we'll do it in executive session um so it's the public's not invited but just being aware that we'll be doing his annual reviews starting it'll be more than one meeting yeah um but we'll be kicking that off on may 31st thank you mr white um okay uh next up is approval of minutes uh can i have a motion to approve the minutes faith second oh oh yeah i will you know i can i oh yeah you know i've been reading the motions sorry so i i guess yes excuse me uh move at the cheshire board of education approve the minutes from meetings held on april 21st 2022 and may 5th 2022.

item two will be public employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificated and classified employees item 3 public employee appointment resignation retirement reduction title certificated and classified employees 4.

you don't make it happen [Applause] come on over daniel so daniel orianna arrived in this country as a teenager attending sitting bull academy in the seventh grade daniel has been a member of asb for all four years at apple valley high school serving as president his senior year asb depend or apple valley high school depended heavily on daniel's about ability to rally the troops when setting up for a mirador of events on campus throughout his year daniel also dedicated his time to improving the campus with various projects as a member of the eco club daniel has also taken 10 ap courses and is most proud of passing ap spanish as a freshman and ap spanish literature as a sophomore yeah wow earning fives on each test so we didn't just pass them he passed them with fives which is the top you can get daniel will graduate as a valedictorian next week and will attend ucla in the fall pursuing a degree in physics daniel [Applause] um so daniel may not know this but i've watched him since he was in seventh grade because he's always leading he's always up front not in front like this but he's always in front and as a student um watching his growth from coming to this country to where he is today and getting ready to enter ucla same expectation class of 2022 to the class of 2026 you make them get you done on time okay [Applause] okay i'm gonna have the board come back and sit down we'll get through our other things and start a presentation and bring you back up thank you uh daniel there's something missing in the bag because it didn't get delivered so it's supposed it's on track for tomorrow it'll be delivered to the high school all right moving just right along here we just need to finish this little bit of business here and that is reports from um california school employees association csea are you uh in the house okay apple valley unified school district a buddha anybody in the house for a presentation tonight all right okay uh moving on to number five adoption agenda the board may approve there's no readouts for closed sessions so clerk um you're off the hook tonight there you go all right uh item five adoption of the agenda the board may approve the agenda as is or add or pull items from consent calendar uh do we have a motion bender second second nunes all in favor any opposed hearing none that'll be the order okay now we move on to the important stuff recognition presentation and um we've already recognized daniel and ella so student recognitions pat schlosser assistant superintendent educational services thank you folks and if the board your rest was short so come on back up here and uh if you we could get you arranged here at the front of the diocese we'll bring students up and students will have you come as we call your name to get a certificate uh shake the hands of the board members and have you go down toward mr schulenburg and we'll get you kind of grouped up there in the chunks of the different kinds of awards and allow your parents to get a quick photograph of you arranged here tonight so um yeah something like that will work nicely a lot of handshaking a lot of clapping that's what this night's about these recognitions are for a number of different activities through the year and we know that there's lots of different events that you've already participated in if you're a senior especially things like senior awards and so we're not going to redo all of those same things but there are some certain awards that are particularly significant and we're going to start with those that represent students who excelled at skillsusa it's a competition that allows students to exercise their skill and ability in a variety of career technical areas or leadership and so we had students who participated both regionally and then at the state level and at the state level this next group of students placed in the top three top three in the states with the students in the top the very top gold level who will go on to nationals so we're going to start with the bronze medal winners for various activities we're going to bring them up and uh again if they'll go down the line here start here with mr conrad and work your way to the south and so um this uh this is a perfectly appropriate because i'm struggling over my speaking an excellent external speaker bronze nathan morton [Applause] in the area of first aid cpr carson faunville [Applause] health occupations professional portfolio giselle mendoza oh she's here i'm sorry about that congratulations thank you medical math giselle day [Applause] nurse assisting abby lewis [Applause] t-shirt design victoria schulenberg [Applause] it's not track but i like it congratulations good job all good all good and a team of uh promotional bulletin board uh participants bronze medal winners faith lester alicia orland and amara vsoniak [Applause] so we'll get a group picture real quick with those bronze if you want to and if they want to stay we'll start lining up the silvers folks want to make your way over for those of you who have children who are seniors it's the last couple times to do this silver medals second in state for the skillsusa creed competition wyatt mejia [Applause] second in state facilithon aiden conrad job skill demonstration silver samantha de la paz [Applause] opening and closing ceremonies a large team silver medal second in state to the team of allison de la de la yana andrew de leona melanie alexander wade isabel cornejo madeleine eisenbray orlando perez and simran aluwalia [Applause] thank you congratulations oh yep congratulations congratulate them [Applause] pin design another design contest silver best second in state melissa martinez [Applause] practical nursing christine nguyen [Applause] and medical assisting laura ramos lopez [Applause] those are our silver medal winners second in state bring them come on up and get a photo the next group are gold medal winners top in the state and they will be able to participate in the national competition in atlanta in june students include for the both 2021 and 2022 action skills logan cortes nunez i did audio radio production tiffany ho ching johnson [Applause] and matthew renteria [Applause] for the creed competition gold jalen cerna basic health care skills caitlin vargas mechatronics timothy hinckley [Applause] this is part of a team another member mechatronics alan sanchez rodriguez [Applause] medical assisting jessica archuleta [Applause] medical math hayley gray [Applause] nurse assisting panagiata benitados [Applause] pin design piper korea [Applause] restaurant service david applegate [Applause] when we were in a pinch david came and helped us too he's a great help thank you so much for the arts communication cluster a group to put out an amazing display a team of three young women going gold medal winners team of abigail harrison aubry reese and madison wheatcroft carry all three of them cnc milling specialist and this student also earned a four thousand dollar haas scholarship ty claire and i'm not supposed to have favorites in this list but this kid's pretty special cnc turning specialist and also a four thousand dollar haa scholarship dominic schlosser [Music] [Applause] folks if you want to get a picture of our gold medal winners let's send these kids off to atlanta with the big support from apple valley um the next group of students also competed in medical related competitions you heard several listed earlier because skillsusa does include medical competitions this particular competition set coming up next next is for the health occupation students of america hosa the 2022 state achievements these students earn special recognition at their state level conference first for the hosa bowl nationals savannah green [Applause] accompanying her will be caitlin vargas [Applause] another team member uma kumar [Applause] and another also going to nationals giselle [Applause] day yeah second place healthy lifestyles also advancing to nationals sahara garibay third place healthy lifestyles also going to nationals elena lopez hosa finalist and medical assisting jessica archuleta [Applause] a retiring hosa state officer from the last school year who finished her term of office and we want to recognize that contribution to the state tammy watt [Applause] newly elected hosa state officer beginning her term in the next school year autumn strange and that makes our hosa award winner group if we want to grab a quick photo there [Applause] the next couple of groups are small one student in in several different minor categories that are major in their accomplishment and so we won't have them have to stay and group up we'll have um folks who want to get a picture we'll do that right away up here or you can head down if you want to meet your folks down there for a photograph yes a little climate control thank you so much some of these kids are doing some laps so the future farmers of america program another california state student ctso one of our tea our technical organizations for students to demonstrate skill and ability we have a high desert section vice president which is a important office with a lot of responsibility please congratulate alyssa scott [Applause] traditionally we've had science fair winners here we have there's been some changes at the county to the science fair program we still have many students who participated in this particular student participated at the california state level has participated in science fair every year i can remember from when i was with her at vanguard at very early elementary school age she did another wonderful job please congratulate alessandria reader [Applause] without you at the county level we had students participate locally in a spelling bee and then move their way up through the region we had one student from apple valley unified school district from sandia school who took third in the county dean anderson [Applause] the rotary conducts a speech contest every year that helps students practice their speech skills but also gives out scholarships this year the rotary four-way speech contest first place win winner kimberly soltero [Applause] music in the parks choir competition outstanding soloist jeremiah sandoval [Applause] from our english language development department students who demonstrated excellence in development of english language and also the gift of multilingualism the students who did the best in their programs chosen by the staff from apa valley high school sabrina stephanie benitez benitez [Applause] from high desert premier academy samantha maria barra [Applause] from granite hills high school daniel alejandro garcia perez [Applause] although that senior award night special scholarships were celebrated there are two that are particularly important and special for our system because they are rare and unique the morning sun children's foundation scholarship of twenty thousand dollars awarded to a hard-working student and recipient seth foyles [Applause] likewise we have a recipient of the amazon future engineers scholarship which is a ring a forty thousand dollar scholarship that also results in a paid internship upon graduation um he's an outstanding student who's one of our valedictorians but also a valedictorian at bvc where he's earning his associate's degree at this same time um he's what he's he shares an office with me he's a web intern who uh has helped us build our website through this school year just an outstanding young man headed off um to school at princeton himalay gonzalez [Applause] if you thought you were busy we participated in the mountain desert career partnerships group it's a region of nine school districts over 20 schools where students also compete locally in particular areas in one of the areas was a hackathon students were given a task to perform in a computer programming model third place in for again on 20 school area jaden greg [Applause] faith rorbaugh [Applause] jamari williams [Applause] isaiah reveron [Applause] khadija meadow [Applause] nathan morton [Applause] still with hackathon kaylee cromwell [Applause] jacob kleinsmith [Applause] gavin liu [Applause] teresa [Applause] first place alan sanchez rodriguez [Applause] timothy hinckley [Applause] while he's making his way up edwin saylor [Applause] philip hernandez [Applause] and jordan mora [Applause] the next group participated in something called chopped it is like it sounds a culinary contest where students are required to prepare a meal the second place team in our region four students uh apple valley high school team kendall everett cody gentile isabella belletti and yvette gonzalez [Applause] thank you digital design they also had to design a t-shirt third place jay sebastian gutierrez [Applause] and second place to fausto gonzalez [Applause] digital design the team that had to design an advertisement third place avery white [Applause] and second place ashland buick video design another four student four student team in this competition jacob kleinsmith samantha lurley israel villegas and elijah garabay the last group of students is our san bernardino county young artists gallery winners in the artists category digital art john carlo hurtado [Applause] for photography kendall everett [Applause] also for photography james steingall [Applause] for painting samantha lurley [Applause] also painting naeli linderos [Applause] and painting gabrielle soto [Applause] for ceramics gabriella selner [Applause] lake montoya [Applause] eden pinellas and litzy martinez [Applause] i think i share with all here gathered how joyous it is to be here in this room full of joy and celebration thank you so much for coming and thank you to the board for this event [Applause] him hey students and families if you would stick for just a few more minutes the next part is our retirees and we would love for our students to celebrate the people that have served your kids all these years it would be wonderful thank you [Music] thank you all right the slideshow is ready when you are ladies and gentlemen i i want to thank you and i thank the students for that stayed back for this next presentation that we have we'd like to take this time and celebrate the retirees from apple valley unified school district and what a great act to follow in which they each got to see the fruits of their labor and and all they've poured into to their careers and time spent serving our community and serving our students uh now it's time to put them in the spotlight a little bit hear about their next steps um but in our system i do want to address every retiree that we're going to call up here tonight where they're going to give them a little bag and inside that bag we have we have an apple you know this little trophy that we get to them but our system we already honor all of our employees uh in five year increments those that are here 5 10 15 20 years get a pin that acknowledges you know how many years they've served the district once they hit that 25th year they get this granite or i'm sorry marble apple they get on 30 years 35 years there's crystal apples there's just this progression of apples that they get as their longevity with our system uh goes on and on we just gave and recognized a lot of awards for students that have skills outside of what most of us would consider to be the typical academia the you know these are students that came up and received awards for the most part today um recognizing their abilities for hands-on and this trophy is is something that i personally hold more near and dear to those ones even that you get for 35 and 40 years of service because this is crafted you'll notice the upper part of the trophy they're about they're going to receive resembles i don't know if we are stealing trademark materials but if you look at the yucca loma bridge they have an apple exactly like this at the entry points of the bridge as you go over it and mr casey penfold's welding class are the students that put together this apple for us mr reese in the woodshop class puts the base together for us we work with our industry partners um performance powder coating does the powder coating awards and recognition gives the name plate and it really is kind of an all-encapsulating image or or tangible object or fuel trophy that represents who we are as a community and and it's an honor to hand these trophies to our retirees who have given of themselves for many many years many decades and many cases and some almost could you could argue close to half a century so with that i'd like i'll start a slideshow i'll talk through some we have 14 people that we're going to be recognizing some of them have already said the grass is greener and i'm not driving in from texas or kentucky or wherever they've landed at this point but others have sent us information and i'd like to just kind of take this moment to go go through these folks um our very first one mr brian rowell out of our it department in the image we promise not to show the risk manager or workman's comp team from sliding down the water slide but thank you we asked each each retiree to give us some of their their memories or most accomplished moments um you can see his plans are going to hang out with grandchildren in tennessee uh and has made a lot of friends he has a comment up here that i didn't ask for him to explain uh but he states that he's had a lot um i should have wore my glasses i had a lot of fun with the friends i've made at av usd i've worked with all the schools and all the sites and made many friends i've even married a couple of them so congratulations [Applause] he performed the marriages oh what did i read it wrong he said i even married a couple these are his words not mine my good grief i'm always getting set up oh you performed the marriages i thought you said reformed i'm sorry like ears and eyes i need i need a new set of both i think uh cheryl bailey um not here cheryl uh incredibly proud i love how she emphasizes um spending the time with children as her most significant accomplishment um and she's one that the commute from kentucky back to us to get the trophy just wasn't in the cards but congratulations cheryl hopefully you're watching us online and we will miss you all right next retiree i'm sure he answers this question as much as i do no we're not related but bruce conrad also not here retired mid-year active part of opening two middle schools he does make reference uh that you know his funny or most poignant memory was working with virgil barnes tom hogan and how vista compania was a family culture and becoming friends with ken bedell who we will talk about later so congratulations bruce next retiree laurie roberts she i saw something oh come on up lori lori uh i i'm gonna share what you shared and and uh and recognize the pressure that you put on your family first of all we appreciate her willingness to give us a couple weeks to help us start out next year before she officially hangs it up and goes so she's gonna help us launch the next school year but on her slide or her questions her immediate plans after uh retirement are to play with all 12 of her grandchildren but her long-term plans are to play with all 24.

there were two community emails sent out with the links commissioners i believe you have those links to you'll have the opportunity to attend those however please do register in advance i believe you have to register to get the link i'd like to uh congratulate the school 17 arts integration team they're really excited they've been invited back to princeton university this summer [Music] to participate in the program sponsored by njpsa and the dodge foundation the team is excited to continue their mission of empowering students to build upon their strengths through art infused project based learning across the curriculum so basically they take art they don't just utilize art in the art classroom they're utilizing art in every subject area and there's a lot of research that has shown it truly benefits academic achievement for students so the arts integration team at school 17 is catherine chidiax devin defalco francis carlo jonathan feig victoria minnick along with clifton's arts integration coach peggy principal laura zagorski and our supervisor of the arts jason leschwitz have fun in princeton i don't think i was invited are you invited let me invite him i might just roll up on him uh also school 17 started a new program this year called the k kids many of you have probably heard of the kiwanis club the kay kids are like the junior kiwanis and they're a service-based organization and this year um the k kids at school 17 have participated in the thanksgiving food drive to help families in need and clifton they also made cards for children who were in hospitals throughout the country and most recently they held a pop tab collection and donated all the tabs to the ronald mcdonald house which is really a great cause they really love helping others and they've done a great job and i foresee that expanding to other elementary schools in the future i'd like to give a shout out to school five also who this past month took part in the american heart association's kids heart challenge under the leadership of their amazing phys ed teacher mr john silva so during phys ed the students would participate in jumping hopping leaping activities and they learned about the importance of taking care of their hearts through physical activity eating healthy and limiting soda and sugary drinks and salt as i'm reading this i'm starting to feel really bad about myself and avoiding smoking but that's that's one good thing i'm all right one for five oh wait maybe two for six and kindness so research has shown being kind is good for your heart if you learn nothing else tonight let's let's learn that um the students also pledge to to be to be kind and to move more and as a result of their pledges they the students at school five raised over five thousand dollars five thousand one hundred and sixty two dollars crushing their goal of three thousand dollars um and they really surpassed their goal because there was one student a kindergarten student by the name of kyra rios who raised two thousand one hundred and nineteen dollars by herself kindergarten that student's gonna be something it's wonderful i think i think maybe we'll have to invite her to a future board meeting get her started young and so the culmination for the kids is mr silva being a good sport we'll be taking a pie to the face in front of the entire school next week but you know it's like good the kids don't like to they don't want to pie the teachers that they love they want to buy the teachers that they don't like but i can't imagine there's many that they don't like so maybe i'll take a pie in the face so they did a wonderful wonderful job over at school five congratulations to those students i'd like to uh inform the board that at our next meeting we will have our governors educator of the year the teachers of the year recipients from each school here to receive a small little token of our appreciation and also the educational service professionals of the year will also be here also at our next meeting our high school robotics team will be coming to do a a small demonstration in here and weather permitting they've asked permission to do something out in the parking lot as long as they're not blowing something up i'm okay with that so that should be kind of exciting next month at our board meeting this morning i had the pleasure of going to barnes and nobles in clifton and clifton commons to see our fifth grade safety patrol students as they embarked on their washington dc trip we had five buses of students faculty parents staff members and they even though it was raining it was a miserable weather morning the kids were so so excited this is the end of my third year as superintendent and it's the first washington dc trip because of the pandemic so kids were happy to you know kind of get back to doing something normal and they were really really very excited to go away on an overnight trip and i know that's a big clifton tradition and there was a lot of parents there a lot of community members there to see the students off it was just really nice to see it's just a wonderful wonderful community that we have here in clifton and then finally um if we had a student of the month here tonight um chloe who um in her little biography that was read mentioned that she's going to be enrolling in the early college program at clifton high school next year as a junior today we had 12 clifton high school seniors who graduated from bergen county college with an associate's degree a month before they're getting their high school diploma and i think that's just incredible [Applause] and i'm just thinking you're one of them well we have to sing your praises hold on we you should get a round of applause yeah you know what maybe would you like to could we take a picture because we're going to celebrate you we're going to blow you up on social media and and everything the other ones will invite them next time [Music] i know you were there taking pictures let's take why don't you come up here because i want to try to get everybody in can you just like kind of stand there and just yeah just stand just stand among us well if i stand up there's gonna and then and we'll all just give a thumbs up or something this is really impromptu come on we'll all get together [Laughter] i love an impromptu celebration anybody have cake so i would like to take a minute and read all the names of those students and forgive me i have to look at my phone because i have it on my uh in my text message uh so congratulations to zaina alamari ishmael alvarez billy de leon amman gefor sarah haberhamschen laith hassan evelyn kroczek how was that janina good very good thank you natalia ledesma angelo ovalle kathleen rossi amina shana and ariana vasquez so to think at 17 or 18 years old these students haven't graduated high school they're going to graduate high school in a month and already have two years of college under their belt and their parents are saving a ton of money parent yeah well no you have to be you have to be 20.

so moved on moved by mr abu dhabi second by mr awad discussion yes mr president yes mr kenobi uh on ea one we have a policy here uh zero one six seven and at the end of the policy it says the portion of the meeting during which the participation of the public is invited may be limited to 60 minutes and will be concluded by 11 pm is this a new addition to to the policy no this is this is not a new addition now this has been on your policy for many years excuse me one person has the floor okay mr uc do you want to comment on that i mean as far as i know i've seen that language in that policy okay is policy committee made any changes to that no no so so my concern with this this portion here um is that if things run late kind of like what they are doing tonight if this had happened earlier or every night when we have uh a couple of uh demonstrations or illustrations then followed by some some information um things could go past these these times here we could have public comment at 10 30 so does that mean we close it at 11 o'clock so right but i told joe you could adjust it at any time which we've had same thing with the the midnight can't go past midnight we we make extensions to that so um i did check back uh with previous presidents and this has been on the uh the books for quite some time so if you want policy to look at that that's that's fine but yes miss uh dr robertosi mr gone i think the intent is um in the event there is such a controversial issue that the line is around the block it gives the board the ability to say okay we're going to limit this tonight because otherwise we'll be here for 24 hours i don't know that this has ever been implemented in clifton i don't believe it ever has i hope that we never get to the point where anybody thinks that it's a good idea to implement that but i don't think it's a my opinion it's a board decision but i don't think it's a bad thing to have in the policy kind of a just in case i don't foresee us ever using it any anything further okay roll call uh for ea mr abedrabo yes mr awad yes miss bassford i don't know what we're voting on because i stepped out of the room to go to the bathroom so could somebody enlighten me sure there's a motion in second for the the ea section of the agenda yes miss beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny yes mr paris yes vice president daily yes and president smith yes motion carries okay next we have c personnel we have p one through p 31 but we're yes mr smith um i request that we pull a p28 for executive session uh but i'd like to give a reason publicly because i know there are some of our employees probably watching from home there's one issue i have to discuss with the board in closed session i don't expect it to be a problem so i don't want anybody at home thinking that they're not getting hired i believe will come out of executive session and this resolution will pass um so i just don't want anybody to get nervous but if we could pull p 28 for executive session okay p 28 pulled for executive the balance motion motion by mr abu drabo second by mr awad discussion seeing non-roll call please mr abu drabo yes with the extension on p20 mr awad yes miss bassford yes miss beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny yes mr paris uh yes but i'm staying on c19 vice president daley yes president smith yes motion carry okay next we have d financing facilities we have f1 through f9 promotion motion by mr abhijava second by mr awad discussion seeing non-roll call sorry mr abhijaba yes mr awad yes miss basford yes miss beltran uh yes on all except for in the uh claims list the uh the one um the one check two uh agl from three two uh that references the candidacy for re-election and council question mr canova yes dr danny yes mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes mr mr president i'd like to also change my vote to uh vote no on the cheque no prop no problem thank you okay make that note okay you're up i am thought i was first left last time that's why no problem no you might have been let me see before board member comments no usually we don't okay um yeah it could uh mr uh mr awad then europe i have no comments tonight okay so mister okay uh miss beltran you're next so me miss beltran when you're ready i'll also keep it short and be a little bit longer than yours um i just like to thank all the speakers that come out i think it's really good for our democracy to have um two opposing viewpoints although he did share their comments respectfully back and forth i like to see and i hope to see in the future with other issues we saw it last week with the budget we've been seeing continuously with the uh the new standards and i hope you know we continue to see that type of participation um it makes our meetings a little bit more lengthy but i don't mind that because i think we're up here to listen to the comments and concerns of the people and to try and represent um how we feel the town wants things to be done and i like to hear the input from our fellow townspeople um i liked also that the student representative talked about the dress codes because that's been an issue for at least as long as i've been going to school so at least 30 years i wore the boys uniform to school and i went to a uniform school and that was like very controversial back then because um you were supposed to wear the jumper and i was like you're not putting that on me i'm not wearing the jumper i'm going to wear the pants and the sweater vest my mom called me a mailman every day going to school but i embraced you know what i what i wanted to wear um and i think it is you know a fashion problem right now that it is difficult to find clothing that no like fits your body type first and then after that is appropriate for school sometimes those two things don't coincide um so i think it is a larger issue same as the student representative thought that it's larger than just clifton but there's no reason that a district our size can't be on the forefront of maybe maybe incorporating it into these new discussions about sexual orientation everything like that about how to respect someone regardless of what they're wearing um you know whether someone is wearing a dress or someone's wearing a pantsuit you know either way they deserve the same respect and they should be able to learn the same environment um i also wouldn't want to speak to the the people who are saying that elementary school is too young for a lot of these discussions i'm on the team of feeling that some of those discussions are too young but i do feel that in middle school especially uh those conversations do need to happen um so i think maybe kindergarten in my personal opinion is way too young but i think the middle school curriculum that is appropriate and forwards um i know we don't we get we have to vote it in but we don't unfortunately the way it's been to explain to us at least is that we don't get much say into what can be changed that the curriculum is coming from the state it has to be worked in it can be presented different ways but the core curriculum has to be the same tonight some present um presenters talked about that boards are voting against it so i'll do some research on my own about how other boards are handling it um but again i i really applaud everyone who came and speak tonight and i hope that they continue to show up at every meeting going forward miss bassford yes thank you first of all i want to apologize for losing my cool for those that know me know how passionate i get about an issue because it's real to me it's really real to me when you email the board president you wait a while then you have to send another email as a reminder and then he responds to you saying that he forgot to hit the send button in his response and then you go through all of this it just builds on the disrespect that goes bang bang bang it's like a peg board like them all in the hull game you know that you keep on getting pegged and you get angry and if i disrespected anyone on this board i apologize but you know what my work speaks for itself my dedication speaks for itself my commitment to the kids of this district speaks for itself my integrity my accountability speaks for itself i hold my head up very high when i go to bed at night knowing that i did the best i could do every day making decisions based on safety for children keeping children safe keeping children educated keeping children first not myself that's why i'm here because the voters put me here because they know my work was number nine on the ballot proud of that proud of the position i came in because the people spoke to me and they put me here i had to leave this room to compose myself yeah i get angry but i'm a passionate person and i'm allowed to get angry when you feel disrespected proved it tonight didn't i i proved it tonight the disrespect i got the email i forgot to say i forgot to hit send okay right whatever all right so um i would like to thank all the speakers for coming out i would like to thank you for using your voice at the podium we do hear you we may not agree but we do hear you congratulations to the students of the month to the safety patrol students and to the parents and to the chaperones on the trip have a wonderful safe trip make memories that will last you a lifetime it is a wonderful thing that started so we're starting to open up everything's starting to happen um the other night we went to distinguished awards night at the west 1200 people were in the audience there it was a wonderful occasion that's when we get to honor the best of the best in each grade it makes other people strive for that which is something well that we do it really makes you say to yourself wow i'm part of this and i and the speaker he was so good some heard him some talked over him or some talked through him while he was speaking but i heard him i turned my chair around just to listen to him he talked about perseverance i heard his message and it was so encouraging that people in that audience heard his message as well perseverance no matter what's thrown at me i will persevere i promise you because at the end of the day good always always overcomes evil thank you [Music] mr canova good evening um first i just wanted to say uh the uh the event we attended the other day that dr robertozi threw for his student foundation was a great showing i think everyone had a great time i know i did myself but it was amazing to see how many people are out there supporting our students and their scholarships so that was nice to see this morning i indeed see off the uh the the fifth grades um safety patrol trip because my daughter's actually there this year um and she had her butterflies but she's she's doing good there i'm still waiting for the call so if i jump out it's because i'm going to receive her call um but i saw some pictures that they were sending over in the facebook group and she's very excited loves it i could just tell every picture is a smiling face her and all her friends there um and you're right those are memories are going to last a lifetime the dress code issue having three daughters i definitely understand the issue here there's not a store you can go to where you find these shorts you have to order them on amazon or there's some other place where things come in from china and they come in different sizes i don't know where they order from but they never fit right and and it's just always a big mess but if you go to any of these other stores abercrombie and all these other stores that she wants to buy things from they're all it's just the way they're made it's the style of cut it is what it is that's the design um and it's just funny to me because you could go to a beach and a guy with a shirt off could talk to a girl that looks like she has her bra and the panties on and it's fine but if that happened in any other setting it's it's a big issue um and i understand there's certain just for for certain attire for certain venues i'm not saying we should be wearing bikinis in school but um it's just funny to me how how people make a big deal about a three three-finger strap or something for a woman is just ridiculous so if those things are in there i think dress code is something we should talk about in policy if we can kick that back there and take a look at that the academic awards night what i found outstanding was that there were hundreds of students there so of the high school in order to have this accolade you need to have a 90 average or better for that term hundreds of students there and there was even a criteria for students that um did this for all four years and there was almost 100 students in that category meaning they had a 90 or above in all of their grades and all their marketing periods for all the four years they ate in high school i mean to me that's just amazing 100 students um and and uh we always want more uh but to me that that's just great and seeing the student here who had an associate's degree already and other students that do that are doing these things i think those are the things that we should be promoting i think those are the people that we should be showcasing getting out to the students so they could want to be like them they want to see people like them and they want to see people who are achieving these skills like them so if we could look at that and see if there's some sort of program we can roll out for that i think that would be amazing um but that's all i have for tonight thank you dr danny okay um i was asked to uh mention that on wednesday may 25th the clifton special education parent advisory group will hold a virtual meeting and anyone interested in joining the meeting please email clifton cpac cpag gmail.com for the meeting link that's cliftonsepag gmail.com for the meeting link come chat with members of the district to discuss how to best improve the educational experiences for all students in the special needs community again it's a virtual meeting it's wednesday may 25th at seven o'clock and you can email clifton cpag at gmail.com and other thing i'd just like to say some condolences to the family of deanna set up we just found out she had passed so um sorry for your loss and um i'd like to also thank the speakers who came out and spoke um again you know we do hear we might not agree you know we might not comment on everything um sometimes process things comment on a later date um but definitely thank you you know we live in a democracy and it's great to see people come up and and you know voice their opinions um i also attended the um academic awards dinner it was um really great and uh the one thing that i when i heard the speaker say he listed ten things one of them was perseverance when he talked to the students about the importance of um you know what to sort of take away from life and one of the things that um you know my mom always says and that he said he said um you know forgive those who do you harm you know and you talk about caring and that that's important you know if you harbor that it will eat you up and it will ultimately destroy who you are so i think it's just important to you know as hard as it could be but my mom always said that you know um those that do you harm you know just forgive them because you know we're not perfect and it's a hard thing to do but that's one thing that the speaker um said that sort of resonated with me and that's all i have to say good night uh mr paris thank you mr smith um not going to repeat what a lot of people have said already um i do agree with mr uh kenobi and miss beltran that we should look at this policy for dress code it's probably pretty outdated at this point also just two shameless plugs here one is uh the band is having car wash again saturday so if the weather's nice bring your car out and the community band is having their 20th anniversary concert on saturday at the high school at 2 p.m um proceeds go to the education foundation and to the mustang band alumni association scholarship fund so if you have want to hear some some good music come on out and join us thank you mr abhijava thank you president smith um senior athletic center is june 6th uh and senior scholarship events is june 1st it's great to see a lot of college graduates being photos being put all over facebook that's when we know our high school graduations are right around the corner to the family school 17 and deanna's family i'm sorry for your loss it's a tough thing um speaking to superintendent i know she was battling for a while um but um may god bless our family and give him the patience and um make sure us in peace uh the academic award center was great i'm not gonna reiterate the rest uh as the colleagues safety patrol is phenomenal uh joe and i were able to see um well he had a reason to be there yeah he had his daughter there um uh which is even more interesting but it was great to see that when the buses showed up uh it's like a rock concert and a limo showed up where everybody was like hey let's go and tell their parents can can i go already like they were excited which was great um to toba's discussion um as she was speaking i noticed i looked around the room and there were a lot of judgmental eyes and she didn't see that but i did and we talked about showing tolerance and showing acceptance and while some people didn't say it in words but rolled their eyes and shook her they shook their heads and particularly mumble things under under their breaths when a person is speaking i think is rude and while we can disagree as many have said here tonight i think there's a way to disagree respectfully um so i'm just believe about that which goes to my next thing last meeting something was done and said and i'm gonna quote really quick maybe a few minutes ago i got a little off out of line and i apologize if i offended anyone that's what somebody said last speaker last meeting that considers talking about god and the power of prayer to me god and evil do not go in hand last week i think was the most disgusting act of inciting hatred in this city raising your arm and a sense of pure pure evil in the history of this world okay is nothing but disgusting and disturbing and if anyone thinks of following up with the words if i offended you definitely needs help and intervention or they have a pure soul i'm sorry evil soul because i'm sorry i that was the line for me you can disagree you can talk it out but that pushed the line many know what i'm talking about who are here and others do not and i will not say what was said or what was done and nor do i even imitate it because it was pure disgusting and not only to to a religion which affects and impacts a religion and history of people but the history of this society that's all i had to say thank you vice president daley uh thank you mr president um first of all i'd like to send the cons condolences to the steve family um i'm i know her family very well and um i know the end is long battled that she has so it's um and personally i went through our own in our own family so it's a it's it's a really tough time so my heartfelt condolences goes out to the entire family and um i know very well that she and i know we're going to have a con condolences resolution at the next meeting how much she loved teaching and even despite her seriousness of her illness she made every ever to get into the classroom i'd like to go on i like to talk about last last our last meeting and particularly on the budget i've served on this board for 13 years i've been on a planning war for 20.

do you have a motion to approve the modified lease agreement between brown county school corporation and human services as presented i summoned any discussion this is um the lease agreement with head start going over to esc and um we just needed to add office space so i thought we approved that last month we did we needed to amend it to include an office space which changed the price per month okay and but the space was already there yes okay so we didn't have to reconfigure that any other discussion we'll call carol yes amy yes yes stephanie yes uh motion carries thank you thanks i have the recommendation of approval of a non-standard course for human anatomy at brown county middle school do you have a motion to approve the non-standard course for human anatomy at the middle school any discussion why are we having a non-standard course this so there are um there's a waiver by the doe that we have to have they've changed the law that we have to have now board approved for us to be able to teach human anatomy at the middle school level so in order for us to be able to upload the waiver to the doe for three year we have to have it board approved yeah okay and is that going to be is that part of project leave the way with mr roush or is no no it's just a separate science class because we just really have don't have a lot of science electives so it would be just an elective yes okay all right any other discussions will call carol yes amy yes sticky and stephanie yes but she carries thank you i have the recommendation to approve the retirement notice of susie watson effective at the conclusion of the 2021-2022 school year a motion to approve the retirement notice for susan blossom at the end of this school year 21 22.

this is a replacement for bryce boyer uh do you have motion to accept the consent agenda item as presented with the separation of brown county middle school master teacher susie stark at the end of the school year 21-22 and ending the transfers of the high school jv baseball coach jacob by chancellor's date to the high school assistant varsity coach effective may 19-22 any discussion i'm happy to see randy munir back all right he's doing better to be able to help out and with that roll call carol yes amy yes vicki stephanie yes thank you next is super exhibit report yes tonight the um update report is short i just wanted to give an update to the coven numbers we have seen an increase in positive cases for staff and students um i believe since may 4th we have a total of nine students and six staff members that have tested positive with a total of 15 positive cases you can find our current systematic percentages on our website for each building and then tonight i just want to thank everybody for coming and presenting um the great work that our kids and our staff are doing and planning to carry out the vision for brown county schools um chris townsend indeed keith offer i cannot thank you enough for your big vision and trying to find the s always so thank you um and then andy and eliana cox um it's pretty incredible to to receive an honor like that and to see that talent so i'm proud of her and her teachers and then of course christy billings marie and taylor for all of their work and efforts for the festival of brown county this year and then my goodness when we meet again the school year will be officially over for our staff and students and i just want to thank everybody from our kids to our staff to the entire school community for an incredible first year for me at brown county schools i will truly treasure 2021 2022 and it will forever have a stamp in my memory book so um thank you thank you to the board it's been a lot of fun and i want to add a comment to your superintendent's report this week there was an award ceremony for the life skills and specialty students which has been done several years throughout a separate pandemic which is not actually done in a lot of school systems which i attended for a second time that i was able to attend it was a wonderful program done by barbara kelp who was a wonderful teacher later in that department and it was really great to see those students and their families here being acknowledged for their gains for the last school year and i just want to make sure that that got mentioned tonight thank you and with that do you have motion accepted claims as presented i shall move second second a discussion call carol yes amy yes vicky stephanie yes motion carries do i have a motion to adjourn a second any discussion thank you all for coming and that all those bigger

four conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad employee organization alpha unified teachers association item five conference with labor negotiator agency negotiator dustin conrad employee organization california school employees association item six or number six conference with real property negotiator government code five four five 56.8 negotiation parties matthew schulenberg apple valley unified school and item 7 superintendent evaluation uh with that i'll ask for a motion to go into closed session i have a motion by maria a second by dennis all in favor aye any opposed hearing them that'll be the order so we will be in close session and we'll be back at 7 00 pm thank you okay welcome everyone we're going to reopen this apple valley unified school district board of trustees meeting open at 7 pm on may 19th and welcome so before we begin i'd like to just so we have a moment of silence uh we had a barb ideal was a long time teacher in apple valley and retired in 2016 and unfortunately passed away so in honor of her we just would like a quick moment of silence so if you could please join me thank you thank you very much all right at this time we move on to our reports from student representatives and first up is high desert premier academy angelique danielle if you'd come please join us up at the podium thank you foreign [Music] we are excited to be here tonight and share some of the amazing activities and accomplishments from this school year and sometimes we are looking forward hppa has made a strong effort to increase attendance and lower suspension we have been successful making a slight danger this weekend participated in the first semester and we have had less than 10 submissions for the whole school year we are also proud to announce that we will have a total of 485 graduates where the 2021 submissions for school year as we end the school year validation is preparing for the next 20 [Music] and systems to years all of our colleagues succeed hdpa encourages us to learn through experiences with that being said next school year our hour will be visiting the san diego zoo within general tolerance and participating in two stem field trips one at ifly and one at top off in ontario not only will we have experience off campus but we will have three new additional programs on campus we will have an e-sports team an sel building class and a new wellness center to show how proud our student population is the five desert clear academy and the community and relationship we have on campus mr smith and ms marx here would like you to enjoy this video of the various students on campus and their experiences this week here are some of our highlights of this year by high of [Music] we are expecting a lot of graduates at the national community graduation ceremony on may 24th one of the hd navy's biggest ever let's hear some of our students plan for after graduation uh i think i'm probably going to enroll into the bbc for like two years [Music] um [Music] have a great summer and see you next year thank you for the presentation up next is granite hills uh ella hausmann never gonna forget the nerman nervous feelings of in my arms and hands when i come up here good evening board members superintendent nelson and attendees normally i make a report about the monthly activities and events and give you a student perspective on campus life for this speech my last one here i want to make a report about my high school experience at granite hills high first coming to granite hills high my freshman year i was not only new to the school but new to the district there was no doubt it was very different from a charter school but it only urged me to further my exploration around campus i tried out for soccer cheer track and made teams you may be thinking what else could i possibly do well the next year i went straight into asb and became sophomore vice president an emcee for the pep rallies and i may or may not have been in the cougar suit a couple of times that year we stayed in spring break all the way to august we never really came back in person until later in my junior year and even then we saw a few students who attended at the time we had no idea the kind of impact it would create on us for me during that time i got a job pushed through ap classes became junior president and continued soccer and cheer in the spring as well as athletic training soon enough senior year came right around the corner like racing horses to the finish line at that point i was a senior and still sort of felt like a sophomore but with a deadly case of senioritis going back to school my senior year i admit i kept expectations low because we didn't know if in the next month we would need to shut down once again but we didn't and all we could do was push forward and make things as normal as possible we made it happen with a lot of events and activities at school and saw the most participation in years the campus i once saw a tumbleweed pass through became full of posters for events and friends grouping up to attend them i'm now confident in my favorite memory at granite hills high school and that it was leading my seniors through their final cougar chants at the end of the year pep rally it still astonishes me that the class before the pandemic left nothing but cricket noises in the stands of our pep rallies being that the freshman had been louder than us and now as seniors after the epidemic we delivered roaring thunder filling the gym it confirms to me that the challenges we face these previous years did not stop us from making the most of our senior year and that the classes ahead will follow our attitudes and strive for even better i am overjoyed to announce the new governing council president next year i am confident to say that she will lead this class with the best in favor and most spirit i can't wait to see what she does please welcome ashley guzman [Applause] good evening board members superintendent nelson and attendees um ella has just introduced me but once again i am ashley guzman your 2022-2023 school year granite hills governing council president i want to start off by mentioning how incredibly proud i am to be here in front of you all as the representative of my school in order to give this speech and although it will be brief i hope it will be sorry i hope it will be inspiring now as i begin i would like to thank ella for all she has done as president this past year she has done an amazing job and has given me many great words of advice which i will forever cherish and remember i am aware as i step into this position i am aware of the responsibility it comes with yet i assure you i am ready for it i have begun plenty many events and as and activities for the upcoming school year which i am hoping will bring more spirit from the student body and make our learning place a more enjoyable and welcoming place to be seeing as i have already took part in planning many of our school events and activities in these past three years i am excited that we will have more freedom and how we will be able to execute many of our plans that we have in store now that many of the coveted regulations are being lifted i can assure you that this upcoming school year is going to be remarkable i don't want to give too much away so with that being said thank you board members and superintendent nelson and thank you to the all the wonderful attendees that came in order to support and or i have at least listened to me that's all i have for today but always remember maroon and gray leads the way [Applause] all right daniel you're up half belly hi daniel breanna good evening steam board members and superintendent nelson my name is daniel orianna and this is my last report as the 2021-2032 apple valley high school representative it has been an honor updating you on activities supporting events and recognitions from our school the last few weeks of may have been spent honoring the hard work our seniors have done these last four years we held their senior awards night may 11th and have also held a special banquet for our cde programs ffa and multiple club organizations tomorrow seniors will say their goodbye to appleby high school during their last school day and bid their final farewell on the graduation ceremony this may this wednesday may 25th i would like to thank each and every one of you for always taking student opinion into consideration and having to make difficult choices regarding our education the school year started with high anxiety and fear of the unknown but thanks to your leadership and the persis perseverance of students parents and teachers alike we were able to make the school year as normal as possible from the bottom of my heart i thank you for making sure i had a normal senior year now i would like to introduce the 2022-2023 appleby high school representative i've had the pleasure of seeing this person grow into the confident leader she is today and i'm sure that she will shine as apovali high school's next asb line president please welcome cheyenne valentine good evening board members and attendees i'm next year's asb line president cheyenne valentine and after the last few years of uncertainty uncertainty um i'm very excited to see what next year has in store for our community and for just avhs um i'm very excited to work with every single one of you and see what happens thank you daniel go ahead and stay up there ella ella ella i had not head up to the podium one final time actually this means the board has to get up and stand here now so so tonight we're going to start with granite hills high school because alphabetically they're always second and they got to present first tonight so come up here ella so we're going to give a little bit about ella's background she's graduating with a 3.8 gpa ella has spent three years in asb completed the sports therapy pathway at granite hills high school this year she serves as governing council president and made second team all-league in soccer as a member of the sideline cheer team she led students and apple and was the lead athletic trainer in the fall ella will be attending cal state san bernardino and majoring in kinesiology with plans of becoming a physical therapist i can't imagine anything better than this person doing physical therapy for somebody in need she will care for them and always has a smile on her face so i told her my most um memorable time this year was showing up at granite during lunchtime she's on the stage doing a rally and she comes off the stage and comes over and gives me a hug and as the superintendent at a high school that doesn't happen unless it's your own kid and by the way my own kid didn't do it until my second kid did so ella i appreciate you we are so excited that you're moving on to um cal state san bernardino which is my alma mater and so you're going to do great things and i know this so if you'll shake hands i've got a little something for you [Applause] there's an expectation here class of 2022 class of 2026.

so i don't know like i don't know if there's to 12 more in the womb i can never say no to that i i don't want to let this opportunity go by when i first came to this town and i had no place to stay lori opened her house and i lived in her house for three weeks i said thank you laura [Applause] congratulations lord next up we have caroline murphy she's hiding she's hiding where is she come on up i i love i love this focus uh her most significant accomplishment there's been a few who've gone this route raising two wonderful daughters who each raised two wonderful children and i assure you that your impact has been on more than just the two children in your house or the four grandchildren you have so congratulations well done [Applause] one of the wonderful daughters is here what is the other one oh okay okay all right oh i see there she is next up we have nancy fuller nancy nancy is probably out riding her bike somewhere she loves being outdoors she has shared that she's excited to continue her journeys of marathons and bike riding and heading to colorado to do some dancing and all of the above so i know i had the joy and pleasure of getting to work with her for several years and uh we will definitely miss her but recognize her impact on her community there you go and she's got great neighbors well done miss fuller next next person retiring also one kind of near and dear guy got to get trained by her as i took on this current position but vanessa cruz there she is um she does recognize i i have to share this story and those that know cameron will appreciate it um she reckons her funny or most poignant memories is actually working with cameron on a day-to-day basis was pretty funny those of you that knew him will understand what what i'm talking about for those of you that don't know we did have to um send cameron to colorado to work get him kind of out of our area so he'd uh lessen the impact but when i sent him a screenshot of this and gave him this information today i asked my office i said can you predict cameron's response and they're like oh he's gonna say told you i'm great look how great i and his response to the text was told you i'm a legend so i mean he you nailed it he's a great guy and we are definitely uh appreciative of value given to us her memories similar to what we had spoken about earlier nothing to do with the job all about the way she was able to bring her children up and the impact they've made on our community and each other and always exemplified just that beautiful family bond and appreciate you and well done [Applause] next up mr greg mcmahon [Music] there he is [Applause] i'll tell you after reading through all the immediate plans there's one person that i wish i would have made a friendship with and that's you greg anytime you need a partner going camping fishing or heading to the sierras just give me a call well done congratulations uh we know you're 35 years you got you're the recipient of many of the apples we talked about earlier um finally we have six more i and and i don't want to overlook these are people that never really gave us any information they um they are still worth noting and if any of them are here i'll start ken bedell 22 years of service is he here i know bruce conrad mentioned his friendship as being one of the high points bob morrell 17 years he's also retiring this year phoenix academy math teacher a man that you know gave many many hours i know i spent many or never worked at the same school with him but we often taught math and summer school side by side bill clay uh timid gentlemen apparently uh but i mean in all honesty 40 years of dedication to our students and district and i think is known well throughout the community for the impact he's had um in that role linda locke six years um taking granite you know and the role she shared over there with the leadership team um coordinating all the office activities and keeping that school poised and proud of you know probably their mo their one of their most successful accomplishments with their recent wasc accreditation and i know she played a a huge role uh in that as well pamela kenyon uh sitting bull academy is uh celebrating 28 years of her service with us and then connie gilmore 20 years yes connie out of nutrition services she gave us her retirement letter uh just yesterday or day before so recent decision and couldn't be with us tonight but again just a big round of applause and those of you those of you who are recognized tonight keep those children in mind that you saw get those rewards those recognitions and know that you were a huge part of that so thank you okay well that was the uh most important part of the evening and uh we appreciate everybody coming uh you you're welcome to stay and listen to the rest of it but it's just uh pretty much not too exciting so uh with that invitation you guys can all leave and we won't uh shame you thank you you might want to stay you can go ella what do you say i'm excited give everybody a couple minutes of course princeton huh man there's only five kleenex in that thing good job [Music] thank you stay in touch you guys just stayed for like two days [Music] we came home monday too i'll tell everybody okay so let's get started here's um so uh we're going to move on to discussion item e presentation on future granite hills high school athletic stadium maybe matthew schulenberg thank you mr raleigh give me one moment to connect to the screen i'll have a presentation on the screen for you this evening at the board's request i've given a couple presentations over the last couple months about the apple valley unified facilities uh certain financing mechanisms for those facilities and related facility improvements i was asked at the last board meeting to focus specifically on the possibility for a future athletic stadium at granite hills high school as we have acquired the property adjacent to granite hills high school um this particular athletic facility there are some considerations that i offer to the board um of course the stadium with the lighted field you have the option of a natural or an all-weather surface for the playing surface i settled on just some numbers there as an example seating for 5000 on the home side is comparable to newton t bass stadium seating for 1500 on the visitor's side is also comparable for a track there's always a natural which would be commonly known as dirt or an all-weather surface rubberized track surface typically athletic facilities stadiums such as this have something they'll call a field house which will house home and visitor team rooms and locker room facilities a snack bar in restroom facilities for those attending the game sufficient parking of course comes along with the athletic stadium or an athletic complex such as this there is of course parking on the west edge of the campus under the solar arrays however i do not believe that would be sufficient for any athletic facility if we were to build one and of course something to consider in the construction of an athletic stadium or something like this that granted is the renovation of the adjacent or the existing athletic fields understanding that a stadium and sufficient parking will not take the entire 40 acres so we have room to do some other things which really are not considered in what i'm going to talk about here in a moment in working these projects we have quite a few different team members that we would have to bring together an architects are really the design professionals they design they engineer these facilities they walk us through getting these plans approved by the division of the state architect for fire life safety structural and access compliance project management they respond to requests for information from contractors during the construction process they answer questions regarding design they and they respond throughout to proposed change orders and then they help us with the dsa closeout process we have uh california professional management is a construction management firm that we're currently contracted with on our district-wide hvac refresh project really the services they provide are invaluable as we do not neces we do not technically have a facilities department in apple valley unified so they handle the project management the coordination of all the contractors and we have one job site superintendent currently and will soon have two job site superintendents because we will be bidding phase two of our hvac project shortly and they really manage the day-to-day they coordinate those contractors they deal with questions they they make sure the contractors are following the rules on the job site keeping not only the contractors and the workers safe but our students and our staff staff safe around any construction sites there's other potential team members we have to hire an inspector of record commonly known as the ior this is somebody we hire to inspect per the dsa improved plans making sure things are constructed per the plan one of the major responsibilities of the ior is to deal with access compliance and ada path of travel making sure the facilities are accessible to anybody that wants to access those facilities there's a lab a record they perform testing they test concrete samples they test soil compaction rates they test bolts to make sure they're strong enough to hold what they were bolting together they they're a very important piece in building to those dsa plants and then of course there's your category contractors the construction companies that actually build whatever we're going to build and in this process through building these large facilities we of course bid these and the contractors we get i put lowest bid i should have put lowest responsive responsible bidder because they have to actually respond and be responsible and be able to prove that they can do this and build these build these types of facilities how much might this cost potential total project costs for an athletic facility at granite hills high school may fall somewhere in the range of 15 to 25 million dollars now that is a very big range and that range is based on what options the board would decide to move forward with how much seating all weather surface natural surface all-weather track dirt track how big of a parking lot are we going to build stick built structures for the field house or are they going to be portable buildings that are installed on site lots of different project options which can create these significant variations and one example in terms of field lighting for these athletic stadiums a recent project that i was able to discuss with somebody the field lighting alone was 1.5 million dollars that's just for four towers and some lights and of course the electrical that goes along with that so the and the environment we're in right now unfortunately construction is very expensive but contractors are also very busy so there's a lot of factors that can contribute to this cost hence such a large range the next question how do you pay for it if you recall in february i talked about general obligation bonds and in fact uh recently the board approved a resolution and we are moving forward with exploring the feasibility of a general obligation bond on the november 2024 ballot typical uses of course are facility improvements academic and athletic and or to discharge existing cop debt service which the district does currently have a cop a certificate of participation again you'll recognize this slide again from my february presentation and talk briefly about a certificate of participation that is non-voter approved debt that is essentially the district puts up a school site as collateral to borrow money and then we use our general fund or an identified revenue stream to make those debt service payments and these again are typically issued for capital improvement projects one of the options absent of a geo bond would be to issue a new cop to finance the construction of an athletic facility at granite hills high school we would borrow i would suggest we borrow against the remainder of our rda revenue stream that revenue stream is currently supporting the debt service on our existing cop but not utilizing the entire revenue stream if you look on the bottom of the slide and mr carty of piper sandler our district financial advisor prepared an illustrative an example again for illustrative purposes only but an example if the district were to issue a 20 million dollar certificate of participation the debt service at current rates would be approximately 1.2 million dollars per year for 30 years so it would cost about 36 million dollars to borrow twenty seven hundred thousand of that debt service each year would would take up the remaining rda revenue stream unfortunately we would experience about a half a million dollar per year for thirty 30-year impact to our general fund operating budget in order to make those debt service payments again this was an illustrative this is an example that mr carty prepared if the board chooses to move forward with this type of financing mechanism to facilitate the design and construction of an athletic facility of course these numbers might vary as the economic climate shifts and interest rates change and evolve does the board have any questions any questions for matt appreciate it matt um certainly that's that's what i was looking for uh just a little bit more details and um i'll take it uh we'll agenda something later on so put it in your back pocket for now okay not too not too uh not too deep in your pocket though thank you okay thank you yes go ahead wilson microphone yes and then we're going to need to turn our mics on um i was reminded by kylie uh when we start voting here too so i'll just turn them on now yeah the green light needs to be um if i may provide a brief comment i think the board for i need to i i in my life in my career as an engineer i also fight for i thought financing in my opinion that we before we go any further we need to perhaps form a citizen advisory committee that's my thinking so that we can get input from the community okay okay thank you all right with that uh we're moving on um kylie do we have any public comments we do okay uh first up uh karen sabers good evening sorry i was late i was finishing up some seniors myself no problem i just want to carry on with the positivity of the night and i wanted to give you an update on a buddha and what we've been doing in the last week and a half we have been going around to the different school sites taking crumble cookies to them for teacher appreciation we did or we were able to get a grant in order to do this it has been so uplifting to get out there and not only see the teachers but also the principals they have been so gracious the teachers have been gracious we have a really really good group of teachers in this district um it's been a very positive experience we've gotten feedback um i'd like to read one email to you that we have a receipt we've received several but i'll read this one i am a new teacher at sand date at sandia mariana academies a former administrator and educator i believe the power and importance of the work you do to support our teachers what a wonderful gesture and i was so impressed to meet you thank you for your kind treat and we look forward to working together so it's these kind of comments throughout the last week and a half we still have three schools to visit that have uplifted us and shed a positive light on what we do and i'd like to also thank the miss nelson our superintendent the assistant superintendents for their support in uplifting us as well it is very much appreciated as well as the principles it is very much appreciated so thank you karen [Applause] jacob kleinsmith come on up we've seen a lot of jacob lately so all right good evening i would like to start talking about the state seal of civic engagement and start by taking one and passing it down sure so all right um in 2012 the assembly bill 815 established the california state seal by literacy the seal by literacy encouraged students to join world language programs and effectively revived them nationwide in california 4 800 students were awarded this honor in 2018-2019 school year another great opportunity has come our way with the establishment of the california state seal of civic engagement through assembly bill 37 the purpose of the state seal of civic engagement is to encourage and create pathways for peoples in elementary and secondary schools to become civically engaged in democratic governmental institutions at the local state and national levels not only do we believe that the state seal of civic engagement would lead to more engagement in civic oriented programs such as asb key club hosa ffa mock trial sun devil high school democrats young americans for freedom etc but it would also encourage students to be more involved in their communities outside of school the best way to proudly prepare our students for their futures is to inspire them to maintain the integrity of our society and to seek the change they desire in the world through civic engagement studies show that the earlier person becomes engaged in civics the more likely they are to continue that engagement the fact of the matter is that we the students are the future and as scary as that may seem sound to some what the future looks like will depend on the support from our schools as justice stephen stephen bryers once said america's public schools are the nurseries for democracy thank you don't leave yet [Applause] so i understand that you got a few scholarships and ms nelson told me that you were an outstanding student because we've seen you back and forth and i saw you at another awards ceremony we got some scholarships what's your plans i'd like to hear that you got a couple minutes uh well i'll be going to bbc for two years i'll be going to bbc for two years uh then after i'm going to go for a history degree and hopefully in five years become a history teacher well i think the district's pretty proud that they produced a great student like you and i have a feeling you're going to go far in life so and you know to take up a topic like this at your age and so well written and makes such great sense so good luck to you thank you thank you so much [Applause] okay superintendent comments so i'm going to address the state seal of bi-literacy so the board knows that we are actively engaged in moving forward with the state seal of bi-literacy or i'm sorry with the state seal of civic engagement we were one of the first in san bernardino county to take on the state seal of bi-literacy we find value in it for our students but it's a lengthy process with an application and several things that we have to do and i believe tonight we have a resolution on the agenda for which is the first step to move forward with this so i really appreciate that um jacob showed up showed the support for this um because he's actually exiting our system but this is about the kids that are coming along next um so i i want to acknowledge that the second thing is for um the board because it does impact them as well um this past week well for several months now we've been working on a two-factor authentication not me personally but mr buchanan and his team in it and this is all about um lessening our risk for a data breach and so if you are using google under your awsd account or aries which does not impact any of you there is a two factor authentication so we'll have to support the it department has been doing after school supports and going in and helping and so they're here to help if you're trying to get in and can't and you get some crazy thing that says you need a code because you do so i just wanted to mention that because it went live today district-wide okay and finally i just think that it's always wonderful to celebrate all of our students like we did tonight and our staff that is retiring i know we usually separate that but because of um the small number of retirees this year after a large number last year we felt like putting them together with the students was very important so after a difficult year it's great to end this way thank you serenae wilson i comment i um sorry yeah i appreciate the board for having patience with me that i missed a couple of meetings and as i said i was lucky that my youngest daughter dr caso at apple high school quiet in berkeley i went on to indiana purdue dental school and she discovered an injury that i suffered almost 60 years ago she was able to work with her periodontists and their two surgeries and i'm almost there experienced thank you for the both of the patients with me thank you wilson maria um i have to say thank you to all the graduating students who are leaving us this year it's been a challenging you you guys had to endure covet and came out on top congratulations to the graduating class and also congratulations to the two school uh presidents who presented to us today and shared with us the wonderful things that they are going to be doing when this is over and for you sir i am particularly interested in in your state seal of civic engagement as you can tell everybody here in this room has an accent but me so and i happen to really find this fascinating because when i arrived in this country i could speak seven languages and to be able to speak those languages you get to understand the different differences in cultures and to be respectful of those cultures and and their language choices so i'm kind of looking forward to how this is going to evolve in the district and the joys that children will have when they leave and to be able to embrace the different languages and have a better understanding of why people speak the way they do i still tell people that i i before i say something it sounds almost like i'm very slow in my language and it's because i'm translating it from one language to the others for it to come out as english and it's always a challenge but thank you so much for all of your research and the willingness to even come out and share with us today and of course uh congratulations to all the teachers uh who are retiring and quite a few of them have a history with me and i shared one because it was just very impactful for me that somebody would open their door and let me stay in their house rent free for three weeks and i thought that was very pleasant and of course those teachers that we celebrated this last week going from school to school to recognize their years of service i am really really really honored to to be sitting here and and to serve all of you thank you again thank you mariette christopher so tonight i have a quasi-brief message of sincere congratulations and and gratitude uh first off congratulations to all the students who participated and placed in skillsusa chopped our hosa competitions our ffa out at the fair coming this week and of course to all of our athletics teams on the outstanding effort in job not only do you make your yourself proud your school proud but you make our entire community proud that we have students who are so engaged uh congratulations again to all of our high school graduates we hope that you go on and you do outstanding things but remember apple valley is your hometown and we need you and we'll put you up and we'll find you jobs so please come back and then thank you to all of our staff this has not been an easy year by any means we know that you have gone well beyond 150 percent effort this year we hope that you are ready for summer and have great plans to rejuvenate and to enjoy time with your families and to fill your glass all the way to the tippy top because we're looking forward to having you all back here next year so with that thank you to our board members thank you to everyone i know we still have two more meetings but with it being the end of the school year thank you chris dennis uh congratulations to all those who are honored here tonight as a way to expedite this meeting i have no other comments [Laughter] thanks dennis i just want to mention uh looking forward to the graduation ceremonies coming up and hopefully it won't be windy and cold but usually it is but uh says hot oh it's gonna be hot okay okay we have no public hearings uh no special meetings at this time uh we have a discussion item adopt resolution authorizing necessary appropriate action to declare rural status for purposes of exemption from education code 46 148 which is basically start times so so moved second okay we have a motion uh by christopher second by dennis all in favor aye all right any opposition hearing none that'll be the order okay item two as the board takes up agenda item number 1.2 classified personnel actions transportation department shuffle results for action we wish to apologize for the correct for and correct an agenda item clerical error for this reason we provided at the board member seats and have made available at the back of the room the original and corrected page six of the human resource report names of affected employees and the amounts listed under action remain the same on both sheets in the original action the columns beneath the heading shuffle 317 2022 and shuffle results 328 2022 were transposed the numbers and those columns have been reversed on the corrected page additionally the original item listed effective date of 2 8 20 20 that has been corrected to an effective date of 328 2022 i move that the board approved the certificate certificated personnel actions as listed and approved classified personnel actions for the transportation department shuffle results page six as corrected can i get a second i do second by maria all in favor opposed hearing then that'll be the order okay adopt resolution two one two two for the state seal of civic engagement so moved forward okay we have a motion by christopher ii by maria all in favor any opposition hearing them that'll be the order good job okay jay a consent calendar approved consent list is recommended that the board of trustees consider approving a number of edge in the items on consent list can send them as a routine so we have items one through twenty-eight a motion by maria ii by wilson so all in favor any opposition hearing none that'll be the order all right so we don't have any need for a second closed session um nothing reported no action taken closing items anything for the future hearing none trine you have anything further comments anything further nope all right so we just need to sign some documents we have motion to adjourn so i'll move with adjourn second all right bender is second in the opposition maria ii yeah okay that'll be the order we are adjourned all right 8 35. thank you guys you

yeah can't substitute teach yet so congratulations to those students that's a wonderful accomplishment and uh mr president that completes my report tonight there is an item on the uh personnel agenda the appointment of our um of our unclassified staff that i just need to pull for a second to go over one thing before we vote on it later so i'll pull that and we'll go into executive and vote on it later thank you so i don't have any announcements tonight but i would like um last meeting i know that the public waited around a long time to speak so i'd like to have our public recognition now so any members of the public sam i see you have some in the waiting room this portion of the meeting is open to the residents and non-residents of clifton for the purpose of addressing any subject matter pertinent to and are directly related to the operation of the clifton public school district residents and non-residents are requested in person to sign the register provided for this purpose all speakers are asked to state their names municipality in which they live in a subject matter before speaking comments are limited to five minutes per person issues raised by members of the public may or may not be responded to by the board all comments will be considered and a response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate your questions may or may not be answered by board members the board asked that members of the public be courteous and mindful of the rights of other individuals when speaking specifically comments regarding students and employees of the board are discouraged and will not be responded to by the board students and employees have specific legal rights afforded by the laws of the state of new jersey the board bears no responsibility nor will it be liable for any comments made by members of the public members of the public should consider their comments in light of the legal rights of those affected or identified in their comments and be aware that they are legally responsible and liable for their comments sam if you have anyone ready on uh on virtual take that first hi my name is [Music] is [Music] to have like a discussion a very sober discussion with questions and answers and things like that before that see what the strategy is what's going on about it thank you hi uh we have anna anna by drone hello anna can you hear me can you hear us anna yes would you like to make a public comment would you like to address the board anna i'm just cooking something nice hold on did you she mute she's muted did you want to make a comment nope okay i guess that portion's over oh wait a minute one more thank you good night thank you uh uh kathleen lepay hi kathleen lee hi did you you're did you want to make a comment hello hello guys hello hi you're okay okay this is the public portion of the clifton board of ed meeting are you making a comment yes yes um i would like to know when um would we be able to talk about you know the new policies the board of education is implemented for next year about the sex education class uh sir could you please state your name my name is juana bray and i live in clifton thank you yeah this is the time sir that you would address the board with any concerns you have no my question is instead of uh not instead of i know that we can talk about it is there more um a specific day and time that you guys will be able to sit down and talk about it or is it during this time right now well there are a recession happening yeah monday and tuesday night uh there are sessions being held you should have gotten information from your schools on that so if you'd like to if you'd like to be part of that monday and tuesday night of next week there will be um there will be a um hearing held on both of those where the presentation will be made and they'll have questions and answers as well so if you uh if you didn't get information if you could check with your uh uh school what school does your uh child go to um school number one okay so if you uh uh check with miss uh romeo the principal she'll be gladly to tell you uh all about the where those events are happening next monday and tuesday okay no problem thank you appreciate it thank you that's it okay all right motion to close the virtual motion all right mr roberto second mr wad okay now the uh in person anyone here wishing to address the board please come up to the microphone good evening everybody public border of educational members my name is orienta magaly fernandez and i am a new jersey licensed mt i work in pain management stress reduction i'm a mother of two students from clifton a special needs we have our own story first and anything with all the education i thank all of you to give us the opportunity to to talk in a good hour two thursdays ago i stay until 10 35 the rest of the persons spoke at 11 11 and i believe we deserve respect if you invite us to meeting you should give us the time to talk early i was going home because my children were hungry texting me at 10 35 and i couldn't talk two thursdays ago i listened to ladies here saying that anal sex was an option for not getting pregnant i am asking myself and any of you you would like that your children get this type of lessons your grandkids your kids in the school i have my own story and maybe mr phobes that knows me good can't tell you who i am the things that i leave personally and i can tell you as a matter that i'm not agree with this type of education i grew up with high moral values and i encourage all the parents in youtube in the channel to come all of you are invited to come and sit down this is almost empty we have ladies and gentlemen here that can answer our questions we need to be clear you need to clarify us why we need to talk about sex on a different way to our kids sexual life is important but some topics are horrible i don't want that my 14 year old daughter knows about anal sex i don't want it as well as many parents and i'm working on social media against this i don't like that i'm sincere and maggie fernandez known in my field and i am in facebook writing against this because i have my own story i don't want my daughter learning about sex coming saying that she's bisexual all telling listening kids talking about sex with disrespect we need to be here to show moral values moral values that each one of you get at home is what each one of you were raised different but with moral values that's why you're sitting here because you were educated you never went to school to learn about anal sex or oral sex my apologies if my words are strong but this is what i want to say since two weeks thank you very much [Applause] hi my name is monique shaw i live in clifton good afternoon yeah good evening um so i did not go to school in america i went to school in a different country i had a european-based curriculum and i lived in the caribbean and i am it's very interesting to me to see parents react to the education of their children in this manner i learned about sex in school my teachers did not do any of the ridiculous things that i hear parents talking about discussing various sexual positions and anal sex oral that is not what an sexual education system is about that's not what is taught what is taught however is young girls learning about their bodies how it changes young boys learning how their body changes and how it responds to women and how and they should take care of themselves how to approach it i learned what a yeast infection was as a young woman i learned what a period was i learned the different options for those things i learned the correct name of body parts that i already owned and body parts that my dad and brothers and all the other men i just i find it ridiculous that parents don't want their children to be able to access valuable information parents talk about i don't want my kids coming home saying they're gay what about the kid that has two dads that wants to know that his family is just as recognized as the family that has a mom and a dad what about the kid that didn't come from a pregnant belly the kid that was made that a family went out of their way to go and adopt or to go through a process to bring that child and they have to tell the child that story does that child not deserve to learn this is how families are made as well i understand that in america and this is just from an immigrant perspective that there is like this it's like you sexualize things but let's not talk about it it's very confusing for other people that look in just fyi very is but there is this elephant in the room where you don't want to talk about sex among your children but you guys have teen pregnancies up the gazoo in america you have sexual abuse that goes unrecognized children do not have the vocabulary to discuss these things parents are afraid of what their kids could be exposed to how about be welcoming of what your child might be able to tell you okay there is a lot of fear i get it in the unknown a lot of you grew up in a different era where this information was seen as bad or you were seen as dirty for having access to it or that this information was going to taint you in some way but your reality and your world is not the same that your children are going to grow up in you have to prepare them for the world you are leaving behind and while your world you did not need these terms of transgender and sexual orientation and gay and let you didn't need those vocabularies because it wasn't accessible your children will be at a significant disadvantage coming from a small town in new jersey that didn't teach them anything about the outside world when they try to go out there and make it in a big city you think someone can from clifton after not getting a proper sexual education and being exposed can really navigate certain nuances making it in a amsterdam beach i think they'd show up there and like you think they'd be okay in the culture shock of the rest of the world if their entire life they weren't even told what else might be out there okay thank you you as parents will still have the ability to navigate these discussions that's what the school is there for it starts the discussion it gives them the information and you can help them understand and navigate it do not put your kids at a disadvantage do not take this away from them and don't live in fear of new things okay thank you very much thank you good evening everybody mark princiac holly street clifton first of all i want to congratulate the uh the students that graduated with an associate's degree tremendous accomplishment my prediction is that all of them will be very successful in their futures in terms of their career i also want to commend mr abu drabo and anyone else responsible for rescheduling these uh presentations regarding the comprehensive health that was presented today they're originally scheduled to overlap with this meeting so it's kind of frustrating to see that when you're trying to see these things so and uh thank you to the administration for rescheduling that moreover while i was listening to the k-5 presentation today regarding comprehensive the health started off by describing teens and sex in a k through 5 lesson what's the most common buzz word i heard misinformation yet the communications that we receive from this district that are commonly sent to parents is comprehensive health yet sex education was described in the lesson so i'm asking you mention all this misinformation why don't you describe the verbatim of the sex education standards with the upgrades with the 2020s and jsls standards more some parents change the world by fighting for their kids what did one parent do she never gave up she gathered her family and friends in an amazing group group parent effort they had 40 plus show up to speak on behalf of the kids there were so many speakers that the board of ed meeting lasted until 1am and some schools sadly they claim that that is the law that they have to incorporate into the 2020 sex standards into the curriculum but that's not true schools write the curriculum not the department of education and the board of ed won't go to jail for saying no it's not like how governor murphy was threatening the school administration over their masking policies what is the penalty from the state if the district does not adopt these standards minus four points on their nj sac score so i'm asking this board if someone can explain what a m what a four-point reduction from our school's nj sac score if the new curriculum is rejected to our board of ed commissioners i urge you to have some courage like some other districts i have with me a suggested resolution created created by a wonderful attorney who i believe has a similar similar talent stack to that of our wonderful board attorney the work has before has been performed please consider using it whereas the clifton board of education intends not to adopt the curriculum set forth by the new jersey student learning standards covered under comprehensive health and physical energy physical education 2020 nj sls-chpe whereas should we allow the proposed state curriculum to move forward the impact it would have in classrooms would allow the school district to demonstrate topics inclusive of sexual activity such as oral sex anal sex masturbation and gender to be discussed with children at various grade levels to comply with the curriculum standards whereas the standards set forth are extreme and age inappropriate and was adopted by the state board of education therefore be it resolved by the board of education of the city of clifton shall not adopt the curriculum set forth by the new jersey student learning standards covered under comprehensive health and physical education 2020 nj sls-chpe thank you everybody for your time have a good night everybody and god bless america good night everybody [Applause] good evening tovah felder i live here just piggybacking quickly off of andrew's comments i propose that instead of disciplining mainly girls because they are distracting we discipline the kids who are too distracted to do their schoolwork because of a pair of shoulders i came to talk about the not really new health education standards from the perspective of someone who understands deeply how important it is that we do talk about such inclusion stuff as some background one of my aunts is a lesbian for as long as i can remember i've known that aunt linda and aunt donna were life partners the same way my mom and dad were and because this was always how it was because nobody in my family ever talked about them like it was some kind of shameful secret i never thought of it as anything noteworthy that is why this kind of inclusive education why these updated standards are so vitally important when kids understand that there are all of these different ways of existing and of being a family then it isn't shocking or scandalous when they meet their first openly gay kid or a kid with two moms when they understand that gender isn't necessarily fixed with their genitals then maybe it won't feel like their world is imploding if they realize someday that the gender they were assigned just doesn't feel right for the last 12 years i've been working in a religious school and tutoring privately one of my long time students a few months shy of 13 is preparing to become a bar mitzvah i'll call him josh i've known josh since he was in second grade and in my class for the first time back then he would often come to class with sparkly nail polish and we would compare our painted fingernails we still do that he's just about the sweetest most gentle spirit i've ever met and he knows that i'm talking about him tonight he thanked me for it actually that sweet kid is having an awful year josh lives in a nearby town with a good school district known for their high test scores and their accomplished students as a brown-skinned jew and young gay person who is proud of who he is and who doesn't hide his love of rainbows and the color pink he has not felt welcomed or supported in his district in this good school josh has been bullied by some who have been raised to see him as deviant or somehow unacceptable i'll remind you he's 12 he's a child things have been so hard for him that his family is taking the enormous financial hit of moving him to an expensive private school where he can be himself in an accepting supportive environment and despite this josh is actually pretty lucky most families simply can't afford to make that kind of sacrifice and many kids don't have supportive families for a whole lot of lgbtq kids they just have to suffer through it until they graduate or drop out some like a clifton teen my son knows are literally thrown out of their homes once they tell their parents that they're gay or trans it's really hard to be any kind of a minority and not get to see yourself in the culture around you on tv in songs in the books you read in school as a jew growing up i struggled with this a lot i was one of only three in my whole elementary school and except for a token hanukkah song in december i never saw examples of my own family in the school curriculum my son has struggled with it too even here in a city that is brimming with diversity he's had to deal with kids throwing him the nazi salute and making jokes about burning him up in an oven i'll add that administration was really quick to act when i went to them but it doesn't erase what happened now try to imagine being the child of a gay couple or of actually being a gay child or a trans child or non-binary child imagine that the only time you hear about people like you is when parents get up and tell the entire community that they don't want their kids to even learn that you exist imagine how painful that must be i know that some of you may think that for our youngest students there's just no need to discuss these things they'll learn about it later the trouble is when you fail to acknowledge an entire segment of the population you are implicitly stating that there's something wrong with those people something that makes even talking about them unacceptable that is a terrible harmful message one final thought if you find yourself on the same side of an argument with someone who casually throws around a nazi salute as happened at the last meeting it might be time to really ask yourself if you're on the right side [Applause] anyone else wish to address the board hi good evening pardon i came from work first of all i think it's amazing that you have students that have their associate's degree um definitely going to be taking this back my name is barbara holstein and i am from montague township i am speaking here as a citizen and not as a board member of montague township all right this is a very very nice boardroom certainly uh a lot more than what we have in our gymnasium but i appreciate it i attended a board meeting in gardewood on tuesday and i saw them um one of their board members came to the table presented a resolution got a second on the resolution put it up for discussion and they now have a resolution opposing the adoption of the curriculum that would be in recognition of the state standards interestingly enough the board of at the presentation by the superintendent that night kind of really helped clarify exactly why it's essential that any school district who is interested in protecting all children so while the comments from the ladies here regarding certain groups of children they're very selective to certain groups your job is to protect all children my problem with lbgtqhi whatever is it's missing the h it's missing heterosexual it doesn't address the largest number of population i sat quietly and listened to you i expect you to do the same for me so my point is is that any resolution any decision the due diligence of a school board member is for the whole district no one's coming at you and saying take away your 2019-year 2016 health and physical education curriculum which does have most of the content of the new ones this comes directly from the website so anybody who says that this curriculum is not teaching things isn't reading the actual website from the department of education by the end of grade two list medically accurate names for body parts including genitals i will tell you right now the kindergarten class that i work in they are not capable of doing this because they don't need it they need to learn how to hold a pencil they need to know how to follow directions and their teacher they need to learn how to sit in their seat most of the kids in this classroom actually come from guatemala and honduras they've never even seen the inside of a school building the last thing we need to do is be teaching them how to label genitalia okay now when when then is that appropriate if a child has an issue the child is a teacher notices this i notice it i go to my teacher i work with and i say look you know what i've noticed a couple little things going on here and you know what they do they get the guidance counselor involved they get the people involved to take the child in private and discuss things in private that aren't supposed to be discussed in front of their older other children who don't need to know that private business the second thing down here discuss a range of ways people explain their express their gender and how gender stereotypes may limit behavior those kids that just graduated with those associates degrees they graduated without having this and they all did successfully well new jersey state learning standards describe what students should know and be able to do with the completion of the grades these standards provide the foundation for school district curricula that is used by teachers in the development of their daily lesson plans curricula lesson plans everything in here is going to be filtered down and yes in the classroom the teacher gets a discretion there's not one of you that sits in a classroom not even the superintendent so whatever is said is said directly to those kids and whatever you ask them to do in your direction and your due diligence as a board when you go to adopt this or don't adopt it is going to affect the children in the classroom how that teacher wants to perceive it you have to set the message straight my board's going to be taking this into consideration i think you guys know where i sit on this topic this is absolutely this doesn't belong in our schools what we need to keep doing is what we have been doing being inclusive showing tolerance showing acceptance and continuing to do what we've already been doing we don't need to go to the extremes to keep doing and we already have harassment intimidation and bullying policies we already have all that i wanted to go back to you know no thank you my daughter's pediatrician is gay my daughter's 20 will be 22 in june she's a united states marine when she was 17 she came back from high school she was high school guess what i want to go see dr so-and-so because that's what she wanted to go and and talk to him before she left she went there so she was two years old didn't matter he was gay and there was no rainbows flying in his office he just practiced medicine that's what we need to focus on hi there josh shaw i live in clifton i have two boys in the in school five one's a kindergartner the other's in third grade um my kindergartener does know what a penis is and he knows what a vagina is and he knows how children how babies are made he's been exposed to it because we thought it was important and because he asked the other reason he needs to know what a penis is is because he pees all over the place all right so there's you can't the kids already know what are going what's going on they have access to youtube and honestly we moved to clifton seven years ago and we had the up we had the choice to move a lot of different places we looked at houses and 30 mile radius from harlem where we lived and we chose clifton because of the diversity we literally chose clifton because of the diversity i support the sexual education uh curriculum that's coming into play and honestly if the board were to block something like that i would sell my house and i would take my children out of this school system i would take them out and i think you'd have more people do that as well if children are not getting the education they deserve parents have the opportunity to take their children out of this i believe right they can take their children out but i think it would be detrimental to the entire community if you didn't teach children what was happening they also need to learn to respect each other my third grader we dealt with it today with the guidance counselor and the principal but yesterday my son was punched in the face by a fifth grader he's eight years old and he called him an n-word a kid pun a ten-year-old punched an eight-year-old and put and called him an n-word in his face now they were just playing football on the heist on the playground but these are the type of things where your garwood wherever the hell that's from that's the kind of thing that happens in garwood it's not something that happens in clifton and if we start letting the far right fascism wing of this town or other towns come influence our diverse our diverse town our diverse city excuse me only one person is speaking at the microphone just because i said right far fascist wing that i believe that some of these beliefs are far and fascist that you don't teach children about human reproductive like the entire world the human race would come to an end if we didn't teach children about sex like seriously what are we trying to hide here ma'am this is the last time i'm stopping this if you can't keep your quiet you're going to have to leave the room i don't care who it is he has the floor he's addressing us please keep your comments to yourself while people are speaking thank you can i get my time back there for mr smith thanks um so where was i uh i believe that it's a slippery slope and if you don't teach children reproductive health uh more children won't know how to speak about sexual abuse and and i i just i'm it's really upsetting that this is even coming up in this community honestly i stand with the board and i hope you guys have a strong backbone thank you hi uh i'm lilly d'amato i live here in clifton um i wasn't going to speak tonight but i'm pretty disturbed um so i had a pretty unique educational experience i grew up in massachusetts i had a very jewish elementary in middle school went to catholic school for various reasons for high school um and one thing i i got i went to an all-girls catholic high school and um one thing that they did that i really valued was they had a full-on sex education there this was not a catholic school that was teaching only abstinence we learned about all of the different types of contraceptives we learned about all of it and why and the principal was a nun she was one of the sisters because they knew we were going to do something we were going to figure it out and knowledge is power right so i think that that's important information right knowledge is power the more you know the better right i also want you to really pay attention to who sounds fearful here and who's leading with love right decisions good decisions are not made out of fear right the fear of saying the word penis or vagina or vulva i don't know these are scientific words we're in a pandemic right mr schull talks about you know sexual abuse well if your five-year-old doesn't know the word penis and someone's touched him somewhere and he has no vocabulary for that that happens right that abuse may keep going and i certainly hope for none of that but knowledge is power lead with love right not with fear that's it thanks [Applause] good evening marcia miller clifton i have information from the family watch international organization on comprehensive sex education and the harmful effects on children one it sexualizes children and normalizes child sex and desensitizing children to sexual things may give examples of children having sex or imply many of their peers are sexually active may glamorize sex use graphic materials teach explicit sexual vocabulary or encourage discussion of sexual experiences attractions fantasies or desires two teaches children to consent to sex may teach children how to negotiate sexual encounters or how to ask for or get consent from other children to engage in sexual acts with them three normalizes anal and normal sex introduces these high-risk sexual behaviors to children and may normalize them male 1 vital medical facts such as extremely high stds for oral and anal cancers associated with these sexy i'm sorry these risky sex acts promotes homosexual and bisexual behavior promotes acceptance of and or exploration of diverse sexual orientations sometimes in violation of state education laws may omit vital health information and or may provide medically inaccurate information about homosexuality or homosexual sex teaches children sexual pleasure teachers children about sexual pleasure may tell them they are entitled to or have a right to sexual pleasure and encourage children to seek out sexual pleasure promote solo or mutual masturbation while masturbation can be a part of normal child development encourages masturbation at young ages making children more vulnerable to pornography use sexual addictions or sexual exploitation may describe masturbation or provide instruction on how to masturbate may encourage children to engage in mutual masturbation eroticizes condom use may use sexually explicit models the penis the vagina models seductive role play to promote condom use to children may provide medically inaccurate information on condom effectiveness and omit or de-emphasize failure rates may imply that condoms will provide complete protection against pregnancy as tds promotes early sexual independence teaches children they can choose to have sex when they feel they are ready or they find a trusted partner fails to provide data about the well-documented negative consequences of early sexual debut fails to establish abstinence as the goal fails to establish abstinence as an expected standard for all school-age children may mention abstinence only in passing may teach children that all sexual activity other than unprotected vaginal or oral sex is acceptable even healthy may present abstinence and protected sex as equally good options for children promotes gender confusion promotes affirmation and or exploration of diverse gender identities may teach children they can have change in their gender or identity or multiple genders or may present other unscientific and medically inaccurate gender ideology fails to teach that most gender confused children resolve it by adulthood and that extreme gender confusion is a mental health disorder that can be helped teaches abortion and contraception i won't be able to finish the last few but it is it can be a detriment even to family values and and what's going on in their in their community that they consider to be healthy and and acceptable in their own mind and view thank you [Applause] well good evening i'm losing my voice my name is lori lallam and i'm the president of the clifton education association so first of all i want to thank the board for the two percent the staff is very happy for the kids and the programs that we'll be able to do so really thank you from the bottom of our hearts it's very important now i was sitting here wrestling with the idea of talking about the curriculum now as a teacher in the building and i stand in the hallway and i listen to our students talking about what's going on and i would advise parents and i'm speaking as a parent too right now that look at your computers go through your history files see what your children are doing on your computers check their cell phones they do need this curriculum i've seen things like most teachers have most administrators have and parents really need to know what's going on their children's life and that's all i'm going to say on that part now family watch international through the southern poverty law center sees this group as an extremist group and it's also designed as a hate group their founder is from gilbert arizona their ideology is anti-lgbtq and they have a huge write-up in the law center so it goes on and on about how the divisive the group is and how hateful they are and i know that our board and our staff would never do anything that's hateful to our children here because as a teacher and i know as board that we all treat our students with the same love and understanding that we treat our own kids so i will be glad to share the link with the board tonight thank you very much good evening board victoria manga butler new jersey i'm just coming to talk about the sexual education i think there's a lot of misconceptions going on here and a lot of confusion is what i'm hearing um i don't think we're saying hide it under the rug i don't think we're saying don't tell it don't talk about it a penis or a we're not saying that we're saying at a kindergarten level of a child who's five years old to be taught about masturbation and anal sex at that age is appalling that is totally unacceptable and why are we teaching the school's teaching well a parent should be teaching at home these parents should be teaching their children not our schools so i'm standing against this not only in this uh town but the towns in in all of new jersey and we're going to fight this because i don't think a little child of five years old should be taught about this kind of nonsense this is outrageous anal sex and masturbation at five years old is appalling and i do not accept any of this in the state of new jersey thank you for listening to me good good evening al dubois clifton well the first thing i like to say was that that event tuesday night was outstanding totally outstanding amish is if i pronounce it wrong please don't schlep how she was able to pronounce everyone's name from that list she should get a little award or some kind of recognition because that was amazing and when clifton does something with clifton i think we would be in better shape what i heard tonight from everyone both sides if we would meet personally and unite we're parents or our leaders because you nine are our leaders that we need to help us in this issue we really can't do it getting up here and mounting off and shouting off is not enough we need the leaders to take action and we can come up with our own program that would be dynamic from what i saw tuesday night at that event was outstanding i mean you know and all i didn't hear nothing about state you know i've been coming to meetings only because i keep hearing about the state the state the state mandates for this and the state mandates for that as well we can't we got to do this for the state mandates which is hurting our freedoms which is taking away a lot of liberties but if clifton can do it which i just heard some people say we can i think both sides could even unite some to some degree i mean there is truth about things like menstruation to understand that so you're not shocked at a certain age and other areas that need to be discussed properly and prudently um but you need some guidelines now i listened before we came in to the um to the meeting go to a trusted adult who's a trusted adult i'm going to ask the board tonight to discuss at your convenience privately whatever to look to get some kind of chaplains on staff can be from the various different religions and they're there now when people go through issues young adults go through issues it's called dysphoria it's normal i was just looking it up everybody has it anxiety depression this that it's a mood swing i remember growing up there was girls on our block that were better than the boys i would pick the girls to be on the baseball team the kickball team they were better and they used to beat up the boys but they all grew up to be mothers and the boys who were weaker that were a little chubby and they may have had the little boobs when we went to swimming they became football players that could destroy pick up one hand and throw you across the whole junior wing in the high school so they went through phases and they you need some guidance i ask you to look into having it's called spiritual dysphoria at that age but right away they're grabbing these kids and they're making a gender dysphoria then they're giving them hormones and then we don't know what's happening later on it's spirit they're going through some kind of mental spiritual dysphoria which we don't talk about we're afraid to talk about god the day of prayer those are realities and you know i'm sorry to get up here to always be confrontational but the wall you have here is a confrontational wall and there's an invisible wall and the structure is a structure where there's us against them it may not be because i just saw earlier how he's all acted and you're so personable and at that event which was outstanding i mean beyond you know and he was boasted about it but you should have the state hasn't done anything like that we're number one with that it was beautiful we could be a model we can get a program together that schools would come and say we're gonna adopt clifton's model if we all would meet together forget the zoom let's meet personally and uh talk about it and iron out our differences and then present it together um thank you and god bless [Applause] is there anyone else wishes to address the board chris tamato i live here in clifton i don't have prepared remarks i'm also not going to speak long but i do want to echo a little bit off of what the gentleman who just spoke before me said and that is this situation requires leadership regarding the sex ed curriculum and these people the anger the frustration i can feel it in the room tonight and i'm sure it's this is raging across the country right now in a lot of different ways there's a feeling that we're at a bit of a fulcrum point culturally with big questions what is the role of education public education what is age appropriate these are big discussions that need to be had and it's divisive right now and this situation needs leadership i would suggest that we deal with this locally in the sense that we try to get it together get on the record who supports what what specifically in this curriculum is good bad age appropriate not break it down make it clear involve the community take a stand and let the chips fall where they may when it comes election time because that's well that's democracy but this is in divisive times where big questions are thrust to the forefront is when we need leadership the most so just calling on all of you to take the reins and don't be afraid of this one it's a tough one but that's why you're here thank you [Applause] anyone else switch to address the board see an emotional close uh motion caused by commissioner abu drabo second by commissioner wad okay we'll move on to number 10 uh first reading of policy uh we have uh 164 8.15 record keeping for health care settings in school buildings covent 19 this is mandated 2417 student intervention and referral services mandated 2461 special education receiving schools mandated 5512 harassment intimidation and bullying mandated 7410 maintenance and repair mandated 8420 emergency and crisis situations mandated cooperation with law enforcement agencies mandated any discussion okay moving on to uh board uh committee reports um first one is uh policy uh mr abu dravo thank you president smith the policy committee meeting began at 3 03 p.m attendees were board vice president jim daly myself um judy basford and administrators were lou ross and mr binjo uh the committee review to recommend adoption of the following policies as per mistrust esme number one was 1648.15 record keeping health care settings in school buildings um that's newly mandated number two two four one seven student intervention referral services that was revised and also mandated number three five five one two harassment intimidation and bullying revised also mandated number four seven four one zero maintenance and repair revised also mandated number five eight four two zero emergency and crisis situations revised and mandated number six nine three two zero cooperation with law enforcement revised and mandated number seven two four six one special education receiving schools revised and mandated the following policies were reviewed and will be discussed at the next policy meeting pending recommendation from administration number one is two four point one five two four one five point zero four excuse me title one district y parent and family engagement number two two four one five point five zero title one school parent and family engagement number three two four one six point zero one post natal accommodations for students for informational purposes the following policies were reviewed with no recommended action or changes number one was three one six one examination for cause number two was four one six one examination for cause and a request to discuss bylaws there was zero one seven four was tabled until the next meeting uh the meeting was adjourned at 3 30 pm signed by mr lou ross if actually if i may add um mr president one thing that was in here miss basford did have a recommendation to add to the agenda um for that meeting and it was um asked to be tabled for next meeting because it was asked to be put on the agenda an hour prior to our meeting and that was unfair to rest of the board members since we sent the agenda out that morning this way there couldn't be any discussion on it prior to the meeting so hopefully that will be added for next meeting i have a comment um i would like my name changed to judith because that's what i go by for the board it's not judy it's judith second i wanted the record to reflect that i asked for 0174 which is a policy on how we do how we contact the board attorney um i wanted it on there because i was told only that morning that i was on the committee i didn't get information on it i had to take my lunch hour early that day but i wanted to discuss it because we had an issue at the last meeting that reflected that policy the policy reads that um it's all business it's not new business so i i don't understand why we couldn't have a discussion when i sat on policy i let any new discussion anybody bring something up because that's what the board does at committee meetings that's our job during committing meetings is to do our business we don't have committee of the whole so we all can't participate we participate at board committee functions so because i wasn't i wasn't really prepared for that um i went back into policy because several people encouraged me to because i've been doing it for a long time so i wanted to go back on it um right off the bat it made it left a really bad taste in my mouth because the policy 0174 is not properly being implemented by this board we are violating our own policy so where do you discuss anything about policy at the policy committee level so because i was not allowed to discuss that i'm going to bring it up in public i felt like my voice was stifled i'm making a public comment that i felt like i was discriminated against because of who i am i didn't feel like i was able to participate fully because of that and i'm i'm quite upset about that i wanted to talk about there's a log that's supposed to be kept there is transmission that when any one of us as a board member speaks to the attorney an email has to go to the to the board president that sets off a mechanism for those bills to be logged that's why i want to discuss it because we are not and we are not implementing our own policy we are violating it i just want the public to know that transparency does not exist when you get stifled remember that this year very important from where it's coming from so i want to talk about 0.174 under all business new business it's all business because it's a policy on our books that has been brought up several times before about how we contact the board attorney has nothing to do with the board attorney it has to do about the mechanism that's in place it's about the process and if we violate one of our board policies what does that say about the board we don't follow the rules okay any other questions on the minutes yes mr president i do yes i'd like to respond to that so mr president um that morning and actually matter of fact the meeting prior i've mentioned i stated there is a standing policy committee meeting the first tuesday of every month any board member whether on the committee or not on the committee has the right to request for something to be put on the agenda nothing was received whether miss bastard was told that morning i was told the year before nothing prohibits anybody from reaching out prior when notified and noticed and it was told and mentioned in a public session in front of the whole city and recorded that there was a meeting and right there and then could have been said i'd like 0 1 7 perform the agenda great not a problem now when the agenda was submitted to the whole distribute to the whole as the board that morning any questions any concerns anything against anything you want to add or anything against any questions i'm sorry no response till an hour prior to the meeting now i think that is careless to the rest of our colleagues on the board that if somebody had anything to add about zero one seven four if you were on your lunch or in a meeting or whatever maybe during your work days or your work job but during the day you had no way to get to that and second of all if there's something that was involving our attorney personally as a board member if somebody was talking about me during a committee meeting and my professionalism and how things are done and i'd like to be there in that professional realm so i can give an input and i can say you know okay i understand what you guys are saying our attorney actually deserves to be at our committee meetings particularly when she's spoken about or he or she has spoken about no matter who our attorney is so nobody's being stifled nobody's being left out nobody's being discriminated against okay and at the same time when miss basswood was policy chair at the time when things are put in place and you allow last-minute items like that an hour prior it doesn't allow board members to give input going in until they have to hear about it at a meeting such as this i think if we want to discuss as colleagues and have full input we are a team we are not a team of one it's a team of nine we have our attorney we have a superintendent we have recent superintendents who have various responsibilities defaulted responsibilities and things that they and roles that they have to play and if we're gonna do this we need to do this right and honestly to allow something like this an hour prior to the meeting to be put on the agenda i think is disrespectful to the rest of the board and the administration thank you okay any other questions on the minutes okay seeing now we'll move on to i'm sorry mr daley i'm sorry oh i'm sorry well we don't have a buzzer maybe we should get a buzzer that'd be kind of fun buzz each other i could see it getting dangerous um so fema you know for a fact that in our committee meetings i've been committed with you that you have brought things up that were not on the agenda it happens all the time we talked we had a 20-minute conversation about hopscotch torches in facilities the other day that was 1000 not on the agenda and that was because you wanted to have us talk about hopscotch as being being painted on so it happens all the time it's not like you know we didn't have all the the principles in in there to give their input about whether or not they wanted hopscott courages or not like it we talk about things in committee all the time that aren't on the agenda so i think trying to hide behind the fact that it was on the agenda and it came an hour before and et cetera like that's not a really valid excuse because we talk about things all the time that aren't on the agenda in those committee meetings i think you just didn't want to speak about this because it related to a question that you asked the attorney that wasn't recorded properly so i think that's the real crux of why you didn't want to talk about it but i think trying to hide behind some policy that doesn't pertain to committee meetings is is not valid because you yourself have brought things up in committees that weren't on the agenda and at the end of every committee meeting at least every committee i've ever been a part of we always say is there anything else that we would like to discuss that's like a pretty standard closing statement and i think every other board member can say that almost all of our committee meetings end like that and sometimes there are little ad hoc things that come up um i have no problem with you guys talking about this the next meeting that's fine but i don't think the way that this was shut down so violently is not our common practice mr president mr president if i may please help you but to miss bill jones i was speaking i was speaking again disrespect um through you mr president to the board attorney this had nothing to do with you madam attorney it had to do with the process of how we operate as a board the board the policy speaks to emails that go to the president about what the subject matter is before we he gives us permission to speak to you it talks about a log that's supposed to be kept in the board building so we can reference if there is a problem we can reference the log to the bill okay i was bringing up process that's all i was bringing up nothing about you and i do feel stifled i do and you know what when i got the agenda i looked at it and it sparked the policy in my head i'm sorry that i can't throw these things out weeks ahead of time it reminded me that i had a concern and i put it on there and i asked for it to be discussed because that's what we do it's about board business it's not about dictatorships it's not about anybody going out rogue and and promising people and stating stuff it's about us as a board processing our board business that's it so that's what i wanted to speak about thank you mr abhijava thank you you're wrong so i have communication actually prior to that meeting asking and requesting for that to be put on the agenda that's one thing so i don't know who told you it wasn't and i was not privy to the agenda because it wasn't i don't remember being sent out or looking at it before it went out otherwise i said you missed something that i actually requested prior to that meeting so you're wrong on that one respectfully um second thing no actually i am not afraid to answer questions never have never will you got a question for me ask it i'll answer it yes i had an issue with the way things are worded because that was word or wrong yes i asked uh the the attorney about a better thing through the board president and we can talk about that later on today because i know it'll be brought up so i'm willing to talk about it thank you okay any other comments on the minutes seeing none um residency and security um mr water you ready for that oh i'm sorry thank you mr president mr paris i'm sorry uh residency and security committee meeting that on thursday april 28th members president from administration were dr robertosi mr gingaro mr doctor and mr constantino uh president from the board or myself ms beltran mr smith and mr aberdrabbo the meeting started at 403 pm mr doctor explained that residency investigation efforts are ongoing of the 1200 cases investigated this year over 200 involved tips provided by townspeople and staff members of those cases 34 resulted in a change of address within district while 133 were verified as residents 25 students were found to be non-residents and 20 have left the district with the remaining five to leave at the end of the school year mr doctor explained that a parent contacted dr robertosi and the board of education concerning investigations conducted by the residency department he explained the process involved in investigations and the fact that this family was visited twice in a 12-month period was an anomaly and that this would occur this year only as we reset our calendar and operations for the department uh number three mr constantino explained the security drills from march and april and that all observed drills were conducted properly number four mr paris explained a complaint from a townsperson about safety and traffic issues on colfax avenue crosswalk between city hall property and the high school driveway mr gingaro explained the difficulty that clifton pd is having finding crossing guards to man the needed stations furthermore that crosswalk has not had a crossing guard for at least a decade and would need to be a new post mr gingaro will reach out to clifton pd and explain the situation to see if anything can be done number five mr giangaro explained that security cameras are being updated throughout the district the beginning planning stage is nearly completed all schools and work will commence as soon as possible meeting concluded at 4 49 thank you any questions okay we'll move on to unfinished business is there any unfinished business uh yeah she told me that um the um what we brought up the last meeting could be discussed at this point um so i wasn't sure if it would be pertinent um to read the opinion um i think because it was kind of for public knowledge more than for the board's knowledge i'm not sure if the lawyer of you or whoever would want to read what's right uh the opinion that was emailed out to us today the opinion that you wrote for the board um about the three sorry the three questions that were asked of you about the election um elections in general um so i was just wondering if you wanted to read that so that people knew what was asked and then what was the answer um so if anyone who's running would you know be be uh receptive to that information as well we won't do that here already there is okay i don't care which everybody you know it's been discussed so much it really doesn't make a difference at this point okay however i i don't let me find it yeah just emailed out to us today i don't know if you were cell phones are great so okay thank you can you hear me excellent so the email that i sent to the board president which was then forwarded to the board recently uh states dear mr smith you have asked us for a legal opinion regarding the ability of a board of education member to run for another elected office and or to sit on another elected office while a board of education member specifically you asked the following can a board of education member run for an elected office such as the city council of clifton while serving as a board of education member in clifton two if elected to the city council can the board of education member continue to serve on the board of education and also on the city council three can a board of education member run for two elected offices city council and also board of education at the same time below are the answers to your questions this is a short opinion so but lower the answers to your questions one yes a board of education member can run for an elected office such as the city council of clifton while still serving as a board of education member there is nothing in the education statutes nor in the election statutes that prohibits a member of a board of education from running for an elected office while still serving on the board of education two once elected to the city council and taking the oath of office the board of education member must resign from his position on the board in order to serve on the other elect governing body see new jersey statutes annotated 18 a colon 12-2 which states specifically no member of any board of education shall be interested directly or indirectly in any contract with or claim against the board nor in the case of local and regional school districts shall he hold office as mayor or as mayor of or as member of the governing body of a municipality nor in the case of county special services school districts and county vocational school districts shall he hold office as a member of the governing body of a county and i underlined shall he hold office as mayor or as a member of the governing body of a municipality and so therefore emphasis was added three we found nothing in the statutes or regulations that prevents a board of education member from running for the board at the same time that he runs for another elected office again per the legal advice above once elected the board of education member must choose which office to take as he cannot serve on both the board of education and on the city council i trust this answers your questions should you need any clarification please do not hesitate to contact me sincerely derelice okay thank you um so just for a point of clarification can you tell us how this relates to the running of the school district because that's your purpose as the board attorney if i'm not mistaken yeah sure so um i i respond to the to requests for legal advice from the board president from the superintendent from the business administrator um [Music] from the assistant superintendent depending on the matter but generally the superintendent i mean obviously the superintendent always knows about that um in this case it was a request for a legal opinion on a matter that involved something that one of the board members was going to be doing what or possibly doing and i think that that relates to the school district in that sense because it affects the board but what is the actions of someone in their personal life which is running for an election have to do with the school board it affects the school board as to whether or not somebody has is going to have a conflict or not has how does that affect the sitting members of the board because if they're going to do something on the outside there's i mean there's a laundry list of things people could do to affect such as moving et cetera but i would think that that's a question for the county clerk or your personal a campaign attorney rather than using taxpayer funds to ask this type of question because it wasn't if it was like a 15-minute question that'd be fine but this was a three and a half hour question so it's kind of expensive question to ask in my opinion i i understand i you know you're perfectly entitled to your opinion um i think that it also affects the board because depending on when somebody is running you could end up having a vacancy on the board and that affects the whole board so we've been through that okay i'm i'm not here to disagree no no we've already been through that we've already had a member of the elise has the floor delicious is speaking wait it's okay um that's i i was asked a question understood i researched it i provided a legal opinion right but when the bill came out it had nobody's name elise is speaking right now please well it's okay we're having a conversation well that's guys once again it depends on who interrupts whom and they get it we've had this discussion that's why we have the leadership we have now on this board had decisions been made differently that day this wouldn't be going on um that that question was answered a long time ago when miss pino went uh during election during mid-term to the city council nothing changed in election law so people should have known the answer that question so to me it was a waste of money okay and i'm not it's not you but once again a 174 was not followed there was no email i asked mr using i just point something out to you ms bassword and again i'm not i'm not um i'm just point out just specifically to the board policy that i looked up and i just had it um here we go this the the policy you're talking about oh 174 one of the things about that policy and i frankly didn't even know this until mr uzi pointed it out to me that in the policy itself because it mirrors uh the administrative code to 6 acres 23a-52 paragraph a2 that's the accountability regulations those provisions state that school districts with legal costs that exceed 130 percent of the statewide average per student amount should establish the procedures outlined in one two three and four which are in the policy and according to mr usi this school district does not exceed 130 percent of the statewide average per student amount i don't know what that number is but that's what i'm saying to you okay so let me ask this question that question was asked by one member why wasn't that information disseminated with the rest of the board because that's something that could affect anybody else that wanted to um because you you have still till september to take out your petitions and maybe anybody else on this board would want to jump over to the city side and actually run it's stuff like that that it's just not getting disseminated to the rest of the board and that's the issue the policy was written that we had a log and i remember years ago a log was kept karen perkins kept a very very detailed log of all all the entries that was number one the other thing is that i know we wrote on there that email permission has to be granted from the board president when we change the policy because we wanted to control who was contacting the board attorney because we had an issue with a board member texting you and they weren't supposed to text you questions they're supposed to go through the uh the president or through the ba we have permission we're allowed to go through the ba as well to get permission to speak to you it's it speaks about that in the policy okay i'm not disagreeing with you ms fastford at all i'm not i'm not disputing the policy i'm simply just pointing out with what's in there i don't i don't disagree with having a log i think that's a fabulous idea is that's not within my purview to create the log obviously so and in terms of uh in terms of our legal opinion being disseminated um if we want to if the board wants me to send out the legal opinions to the whole board i certainly don't have a problem with that um when i sent it i sent it to the board president to the superintendent to the business administrator to mr abedrabel i and clearly you know it became it became a topic of conversation casually with some of my friends from the another other districts do you discuss what happens with your attorneys and one of my friends said to me um you can ask anytime if the board president is speaking to you we can ask what the conversation was about we're loud we're proving these bills but it is what it is um i'm just not happy with the fact is that we already knew the answer to this question it shouldn't have been charged to the uh to the the attorney it was a question that if you're running for another board you should have found out the information on your own that's i agree with miss beltran with that as well miss basford the only thing i have to say is mr wagyu i'm sorry we might speak the only issue i have which may have caused confusion in my opinion was the former board member mr casper i forgot what committee he sat on or if it was the county committee it was something of that purview back when we were in the high school he said that the law changed and he made it a bunch of comments were probably caused confusion just that's just my personal opinion of what i think why this happened now we should have honestly asked we should asked you once he mentioned it but obviously that was just in the past and that's probably why mr smith asked me because there it was it was a delicate assembly that he attended on november 21st 2020 and he said that the law has changed or something has changed and if you are going to plan on running for an election for something else that you have to actually step down now before and we all i think we all had that conversation we're like i think that's not true or that but obviously you need a legal opinion that's going to check the facts um mr president i was actually at that meeting and the delivery of that statement was actually incorrect you can run for everything you cannot run the same time in the same election for two different offices that's where he got the confusion um there was a whole a very lengthy conversation you can't sign one uh petition and say that you can hold this office while you're gonna run for a newly running person for two separate offices because you cannot commit to the the oath and saying that you can actually serve two different positions so he got very confused about that that's not what the that that's not what was delivered at that meeting i wasn't at the meeting i wasn't privy to that conversation so mr smith all three of these questions came from you no other board member no uh mr aberdrabbo asked to speak to the attorney concerning him okay so it came from him all three questions may i speak now thank you and no it did not actually so to the public let's let's let's set this really straight really quick if anybody knows me i'm pretty political savvy i work for legislators to stay in the federal level for a very long time you want to ask me when this law went to about where you can't hold dual offices that was 2010 i remember where i was that year okay and there have been many instances let's look at lieutenant governor for example she was running for lieutenant governor and state legislature at the same time yes you can run for two office at the same time no you could not hold two outside that is illegal unless you are grandfathered in such as assemblyman gary shares an example forsake assemblyman and also can also uh council president pat lepore who stepped down he was grandfathered in but he went to respect the law he was the mayor of woodland park and a freeholder and he stepped down as woodland park mayor i know the laws but there was one thing that came back and that's the one thing i wasn't sure about and i asked state legislators exactly what they said we had nothing on the books i said president smith back in 2020 mr casper came back from a delegate assembly and said xyz but why nobody want to speak then is what i'm confused about why you want to speak now and not then when he actually read it okay excuse me stop making faces let's act like adults okay that's one thing second thing we want to talk about why policy needs to get changed now when you're a chair of policy why'd you change why did you not change it when you were the chair of policy that's what i want to know why now why is it when it's good for you it's good for you when it's good for everybody else ah time out i got a problem with this that doesn't work with me it does not work with me and you know what last meeting you targeted mr casper when he was not on the board and now you're targeting me and guess what i can handle myself and i can answer the questions so yes i did go to mr smith and say hey mr smith you know do you mind asking the attorney this because you know what what's going to happen and i'm not campaigning for myself i'm going to make it on the record but the example was brought up and yes i am running for council but you know what let's say what happened that i finished my petitions i put it in there now somebody comes up here and says oh mr abhijaba you got to step down well now i can stand on my two feet and say no i don't because you know guess what i guarantee you somebody would have came up and said that why because they don't like me and guess what i don't have to be like everybody it doesn't hurt me i can go to sleep at night but you know what i'd rather spend a little extra time and i did my due diligence and i did not go to the board attorney to last minute as the last option i went to legislators on my own i went to attorneys on my own they said you have to ask your own board attorney that's exactly what i did and that's one question that i asked not three questions let's set that straight so then who did the other two questions come from so that's you know that's where back to the crux of this like i i mean i guess he's okay spending taxpayer dollars on a personal question that's okay that's his own personal preview to do that that's totally up to him not something that i would do if i was choosing to run for both because i am also up for election so i guess i could potentially run for both offices if i want to now i know because we paid for this question to be answered i would not have used taxpayer dollars to answer this question i would have had my own campaign legal counsel answer this question for me or i would have gone to the um to the county clerk or the city clerk but regardless where did the other questions come from then or was it just yourself asking the question which is fine if it was just yourself asking a question but it just seems strange that these questions as he said you know it brought up in november and now all of a sudden we're asking it um that's just that's just my own opinion if any other board members have any opinions on this um that's where i stand are you sure so just just so that we're clear sometimes when clients ask a question whether it's a board president or private sector client it doesn't matter who questions are asked in such a way that lawyers because we work in minutia sometimes we'll divide the question up whatever the question is so that we can understand it logically to look at all of the facets of it so right here right now i can't tell you i didn't record the conversation that i had with mr smith i couldn't tell you yes he asked me three distinct questions i know that whatever conversation the conversation that we had that's how i analyzed it so i just want to make that clear that it's not necessarily well he asked me one two three it was a conversation and i divide it up so that i know exactly what it is that i'm looking for and be able to answer it does that land okay yes first of all i stand behind my work and the committee last year and prior years of their work i don't have a problem with 174 i have a problem that we're not implementing the policy that's my problem i wanted to bring it to the committee because that's where we do board business that's where we do more business that's where we're supposed to function we can't function as a committee of the whole we're supposed to bring you mean to tell me every single committee has never brought up new business that's bs that's bs i mean you guys people come bits about stuff that's not even board related in these committees and they talk about you know the sky is blue or the the light outside the building isn't the right color it's really disgusting that because i asked i asked to speak about something at a committee meeting that i went back to that i was reluctant to be on mr abu drabble because of you and what you've done to me all right that's why we're we're on the topic of i am on the topic that's going on i am on no i am going to explain to the community why i jumped off a committee that's that's the man has harassed me we're not discussing that right now this is specifically under what under what tense mr president because you know what you allow him to go off on iran but when a woman wants to you shut it down okay you are sexist and you're not enough no i'm not speaking no i am not accepting excuse you're out of order excuse me you're out of water yelling at me i am not yelling i'm very calm and telling you you're out of order we are discussing the question that miss beltran brought up that is what is okay discuss so no other band box no other comments about anything that is the way it's supposed to be run i am only doing what i'm following i you know you're yelling at me and i don't appreciate and you owe me an apology you yelled at miss beltran at the last meeting you were disgusting and i got phone calls again again this is out of order please okay so i'll get back to the question so we're talking why why is this allowed to be put on a bill for an attorney because i think the public has the right to know what we're spending our money on okay we pay you what 150 dollars an hour right per hour okay we've hired special attorneys for five hundred dollars an hour from people that don't have problems spending the board's money okay i would like to know why these this question was asked because you have a we have an ability to call down to school boards and get the question answered for free mr uh president smith by may yes the actions and steps that were taken as follows the board attorney was less and i will work i will work backwards the abort attorney was last i have call logs of my own that i can share that other attorneys were called and they said reach to your board of attorneys before that i reached out to school boards and i did and i got call log on that i can share with you they said we we haven't heard of that but that's conflicting right school board says we haven't heard of that but yet you have a board president board member at the time in 2020 that says he came back from a county delegates meeting or state delegates meeting and is giving other information that was given by the delegation or the njsba prior to that i asked legislators like many of us up here have the ability to call legislators we have friends on legislator and state legislator and call them and say hey so and so john jane have you heard fyz no i it huh something's weird and no this was not asked in march no this was not as last november no this was not asked in 2021 this was as in and i asked this question repeatedly and repeatedly and repeatedly and i get the answer now is that my fault that i asked a long time ago and i tried to communicate this long time ago so at the end of the day the idea of asking it goes to the line of a timeline everything led to your board attorney so let's say i didn't ask the board attorney let's say what mr casper at the time who was a board member decided you know that is not decided but that actually was factual and none of us were able to know the answer let's say somebody did decide to declare for council candidacy and still on the board and is called out to step down and says no can the board can the board get sued can the person can person legal actually take it against that person to remove that person so at the end of the day it's better to do our due diligence and make sure that we don't go down that that black hole so we need to understand what we're dealing with while we're sitting on the board okay so just to clear some things up the any board member can ask the attorney any question the board president just logs it and gives permission i do not decline most of the time i don't even get an uh a statement of why they're contacting the board attorney but leaving that aside you asked me to speak to the board attorney i say yes that is between you and the board attorney now that is how the process has been here at least that i checked back for the last 10 years okay at least for the last 10 years no one is denied talking to the board attorney if the board attorney feels that something is not related to the school system in her professional capacity she will then tell the the board member i do not answer this question and is not in the realm of the board of education that is not my decision all of a sudden we're we're giving powers to me that don't exist that's not my decision i've never given anyone turned anyone down to speak to the attorney when you ask me i log it it goes into a file and those are compared to the bills okay so if someone contacts the board attorney and the board attorney feels that that is a question that she can answer for this board then she does so hasn't changed in the last 10 years okay so again whether we don't agree with her opinion that's a different story but she performed her duties as the attorney by asking questions of this board just in this past week there's been four or five requests to speak to the attorney no one is denied to speak to the attorney everyone has the opportunity to speak to attorney if they wish and release again in her capacity if someone called on a personal issue i am sure you would not answer their question or say that is your personal information is that correct that's correct so i don't know where we're getting whether this was someone's personal views or whatever if so it would have been declined by the attorney and it was not the attorney performed her duties the bill to pay her should be paid plain and simple that is how the process works okay we've gone back to how many years mr russia did we check their a log book has not been used um and again i can't i don't know from previous boards and what they did all as i know when a member of this board asked to speak to the attorney i print that request out it goes into a file and then i compare it when the bill comes in that is my extent of it i am not a person here to decide that your your question is not important i've never declined anybody from speaking to the board attorney i don't believe that it's meant to put into the hands of the president to decide whether something is a question to go to the board attorney is acceptable or not that's not under the realm of the board president that would be between the board person and the attorney and that is what has been filed been followed okay um also i i asked mr daily i said in previous years are our bills excessive with the attorney is that what there is an issue away right we had this conversation so if the bills were excessive then i could see the board questioning this but now the board's going to try and you know police the questions that another board member can ask and that's not our job that's not our job and if our attorney makes a decision and you feel it isn't appropriate then you have the right to go do what you want if you want to ask school boards that's fine but that's what we have our attorney for she represents the board and if a board member has a question she is the one to answer it and again nobody in the two years that i've been president has ever been declined to speak to the president to the uh board attorney nobody i do not believe that is under the realm of the president and that would be between you and the attorney yes miss belgium sorry um to avoid i think some of this um confusion going forwards maybe every time a formal uh response is given that everyone would be shared with because then we wouldn't have taken to the bills and been like what's this question if march 3rd or march 15 whatever time you responded we all were like oh okay valid question now we have an answer so i think that would just be helpful every time a formal response like this is written back that we all are shared to them we're not shocked on the bills i know there's a few other things on the bills that we don't really know about that we've asked questions now in committee meetings because of what we saw on the bills which we weren't really we didn't have no we had no idea that those events were even going on so i think that might just be helpful that's an excellent policy it can go to public just hasn't been followed in the past that's yeah the reason it wasn't and we did have this discussion there are some times when she won't be able to share it with the whole board correct are there some instances when you can't share what you discussed with another board member no so everything could be shared which can't be shared with the people if it's something that has to do with the student issue that i've shared with the superintendent then perhaps yeah so it just can't be shared publicly necessarily yeah so that's not yeah i think why not yeah i'm just saying just because it'll clear up some of those sure sorry it might lead to more emails yep that's not an issue at all mr smith okay so going forward uh delise will uh share with the entire board after uh her discussion with a board member and she'll share it with everybody mr smith i have a question yes has a board member ever asked to speak to an attorney and you've asked why and they said i can't tell you i want to tell the attorney and i can't tell you yeah there's been some times they just it's so it's a board thing yeah okay but again i i never asked i never asked anybody for the reason i i just never felt it was my you know i don't think i have that right to do that and i and i want to make it very clear to the public last week when this came about and mr smith was being attacked because quote unquote being a campaign major or somebody in the past or what not was first of all um not appropriate because you need to get the full story to attack somebody to have evidence that things are being done but that's not what i'm going to talk about but when i corrected and i said the line may be reading wrong and i voluntarily said hey i asked that question some board member said oh okay well then that answers that question but that still it doesn't have that very calmly and cool about it um miss beltran you were fine with it when i spent sickly when i told you in the back room exactly what it was for no no don't give me a look because it was because no because mr canole was actually right around us as well so so mr knight was around the whole time and you and you didn't have a problem with it so you know danny kindness i got you yeah so what i'm just trying to say is the tune changed from last week this weekend i really want to know why and i and we can have this personal discussion on the side i really want to know why because i'm curious why we're okay with it last week when i gave the explanation here and when i spoke to you you know in the back room about it and i was more than happy to answer any questions but also now we want to change our tune in public you offered to pay for it last weekend so i don't know if that still stands no i did not so please open any words in my mouth joe conovo standing right there when he said that i would be willing to pay for it i mean if you want to start going what talked about in the back room and you want to make comments about what a woman looks at you and makes face you know it's just you know this whole gender thing because it becomes that happens it's not a female it's not a gender it's not a race not a religious thing this is a fahim and dana thing let's get that very straight so it's not a gender thing and no i'm not trying to shut you down because you're a female you know what is the problem is is that the past year this gender card has been thrown around way too much because they decide they want to which is fine you have every right to do so nobody should be shutting another person now for cultural religious gender-based or whatever you believe in nobody has the right to do that and you have every right to speak out i fully support that so please refrain from saying because you're because you're you're a woman making looks no it really isn't dana it's because honestly that's not how i maybe i did and i don't remember i can't tell you 100 i did but we had a conversation in the back and frankly that's just what i remember so that's all i'm saying all i'm saying is thank you i think i've i've been answering questions respectfully this entire time i don't think i've been disrespectful just my opinion i've been expressing it and unfortunately we have differing opinions which is part of politics and part of life and you know that's just how it is and if we're going to talk about everything that we've said in the back room and bring it up to the dais we'll be here all day for years talking about things that are talked out there that are different here which is the same as every political environment you know the supreme court is going to fight with each other in the front and then go to lunch afterwards that's just how life is and i'm sorry if that's if i offended you in any way if uh you know you you don't like that i'm questioning things that are on the bill that mention your name um but that's just who i am and that's how i'm going to continue to operate and no you shouldn't be sorry for that because i didn't take offense that at all i'm more than happy to answer questions but let's answer the questions that are supposed to be answered in terms of what's right and what's wrong and not make things up that's all i'm asking i've answered questions off the day so i've answered questions on the days i have no problem answering questions whatsoever i'm an open book i have nothing to hide if i'm wrong i'll admit i'm wrong if i see something if something's yellow i'm not going to say it's white orange black green or whatever it may be it is what it is it's just life yeah we disagree but the end of the day if we're gonna disagree let's disagree about the facts not things that you know factual that's not things that we're gonna make up and pull out of a box and stick in another box like yeah that bot that thing just jumped from one box to another no it didn't you pulled it out and put it in it let's let's be realistic all right and also from uh last meeting just so there's a clarification on this as well um ms gutierrez you could speak to this if you wish but um there was a question about it in the the bill last meeting the attorney did not have her information in front of her that is why it was not revealed until she could go back and look at her notes and then present it back to the board this week that is why it was not answered last week am i correct in saying that okay so any other discussion on this i have a unfinished business on april 7th uh under new business f number three i asked for a um that the board attorney contact the sec for an advisory opinion regarding lay people attending board committee meetings and i have not received anything and i'd like to know when i'm going to receive something on that if we're going to receive an answer if the petition actually was sent thank you miss bassford um that's the meeting that i i wasn't here for that meeting um and we did take a look at that issue there is an advisory opinion that we wrote up but um in looking at the rules for advisory opinions they're supposed to come from the individual board member or school official um okay so april 7th it's may 7 19 why am i only hearing this now because i have it ready for you if you'd like to send it yourself or if you want the superintendent well but it's really okay so because it came from me if it came from any other board member poof i'm done i'm sorry i i disagree with all he is i think it's disgusting that that it is selected the way people get treated that was april 7th i asked for that april 7th that's over a month ago it's not fair then i i could have wrote it already i could have brought it down i could have drove down to trenton and hand delivered it myself that's not fair that i have to wait this long to find out it was never even done i think it's appalling i am very upset i am more than upset i am appalled and i think anybody that sits here and sits quietly you guys should all have your heads examined too because when a board member excuse me when a board member asks and requests them makes a motion makes a second motion second it's voted on by this unit and nothing gets done that's disgusting it's disgusting it what it shows that my participation in this group is not worthy to the people that i sit with because they don't even care that it wasn't followed up that's disgusting okay it was a valid request i was told it was going to be done it's may 19th so i get told today that april 7th april 8th i could expect a phone call it's not going to be done it's really disgusting okay i waited all this time to find out i can't even say what i want to say because it's going to come out the wrong way i'm really upset okay anyone else under unfinished business um mr president i do um last meeting i mentioned that there was a legislative meeting may 24th 2022 10 a.m next tuesday uh i requested and i'd like the board should be a little more cognizant if they have anything to add when asked to do so because particularly when you're dealing with external partners like legislators you know i think there was one meeting where we gave them within less than a week and they canceled a meeting because they needed more time to do some some research policy research legislative research and find out more information i had to reach out and i want to thank mr paris mr smith if i'm missing anybody else i apologize but it was only those two who have said we got to bring stuff to the legislature in public and actually follow it up when i even though i asked a second time but life happens and it was added to the agenda um if we're going to say let's ask our legislators please let's follow up let's do our due diligence as people who are stewards of this town and you know let's not just showboat let's you know let's add and it's not legislative this is every policy it is every every committee excuse me so i just ask that we do our due diligence in terms of following up in regards to any committee so i did send the legislative agenda over already if there's any additions anybody would like to make please let me know as soon as possible if hopefully by tomorrow so we can try to sneak it in for the agenda so it gives legislators some time to do some research thank you okay and a deadline for that like you can't you can't have it last minute yeah no last minute i mean we got a if we have to talk about committee meeting agendas but we already have that i think what 24 hours that's got to be no no more than 24 hours agenda no but to committee meetings well committee members don't want to laugh there's there's actually a policy yeah no last minute yeah so tomorrow you want to have everything by tomorrow if anybody has any additions for example mr paris gave me some stuff about njsba where we should support that was added um there were stuff actually that mrs basser sent over from njsba of legislative resolutions senate and assembly which i added for a little more clarity there was stuff that mr daley and mr smith you gave me and there's stuff from the administration that they gave me and i added it and i sent it over so that gives us one week i have not gotten any pushback from any state legislators saying that there's not enough time and they've all accepted the agenda but we just need to be a little more cognizant of external partners it's not as easy as as an administration hey can you look this up to our attorney hey can you look this up when you're dealing with outside parties it gets a little more difficult okay any other unfinished business okay let's move on excuse me let's move on to uh education administration uh we have ea 1 through ea 9.

i've served four boards and in general our public bodies are held in less esteem as every year goes by particularly our congress and our legislature uh of course the fighting between the left and the right and who's this it's it's really a disservice disservice and that goes to uh trust and what's the public trust is needed in a public body so during my tenure here and every place that i've served i take that very seriously kind of something i got from my my dad and when i sit on a board or or a body um i don't think of it as myself i think that as i'm i'm a representative of the town and how i behave and how things are conducted reflects either positively and negatively to the citizens and it's so important in these times because the trust is deteriorating before our very eyes about our public so with that if you don't have trust uh you're in big trouble at the last meeting um it was i was pretty abhorrent about the how the whole process unfolded um i've shared with the board i've sent uh asked for a number of bodies to give some feedback public bodies for the state and advisory opinion as well as to the county superintendent which i've shared with all the board members here here's the because i could talk about five hours on this stuff here's the issue we had we passed a preliminary budget in march approximately six weeks passed between the the final budget special interest group comes up uh there was eleven speakers ten of them were members of the um teachers association and they advocated for a raise may i continue for a few minutes uh i really don't like to take the liberty but i think it's important for the public and my colleagues to hear this to change something is one thing we went through the committee process we put it forth if the administration had an issue with the committees i think that was obligatory upon the the administration to say something to not only the committee but to the board you know we don't really agree with the committee and we need to do xyz we got a approximately 14.2 million dollar raise uh increase in state aid and i know it goes to different places if we were to vet this properly and this is the crux of why i'm very upset about this we needed to vet that in public or really work it out not do it at the 11th hour after a special interest group comes in here and advocates for it this is what i the process should have went like this the first question i would have for the administration okay how did you divide up that 14.2 million dollar increase what were your priorities are these priorities you need this year the priorities and when you add on stuff that's in the operating budget personnel in particular that has a carry forward cost we need to know if it's sustainable we can pay for it this year pay for next year we may not be able to sustain it the following years all those questions i think the administration would welcome as the board should welcome we did not do our due diligence and it was just a horror i got and i'm one not one that has people call me up but i've ran into more people that come up to me and say what a disgrace that whole process was so if the administration wants positions i'm more than willing to listen and to work with them to obtain that goal however the way it slip shod steam i mean we just kicked the voters in this town the teeth i'm one that always trusted in the voters i voted to keep the election in april and allow the voters to vote on the budget there was proffering of uh by many speakers that says oh the public voted for 160 68 million dollar there they they want us to spend money on education no no no no that's carp blanche we did not tell the voters you vote for this it's carp launch that's not the way we go so we didn't do our due diligence we didn't properly vet it it was the last minute it was like a free-for-all it was a total embarrassment like i said i can go on but i'm going to leave it at that point i have i don't blame any members i think you all got caught up in them in the mid in the moment but uh i'm not going to let this sit because i think it's it's race we it's so so important that we continue to have our trust otherwise they're not going to support because if you go if you start to go above the two percent at some period of time you have to go to the voters and the voters are going to say well you screw this down here why should i vote for your budget it becomes that simple trust is the cornerstone if we are going to be successful thank you mr daly um [Applause] i'd like to uh congratulate uh jen algieri and laura lauer and their entire team on such a fantastic job they did with the scholarship dinner um it was a great turnout raised a lot of money for scholarship for kids so jen worked so hard on that dinner as laura did they spent countless hours they're volunteers um and um why i don't have a list of our entire team um i have to commend specifically a a faculty member of ours that went above and beyond the time and the effort and the just expertise in his field and what he does um i hope you all had an opportunity to see the display when you came in uh to the event that um or our teacher at ccms mr jeff labriola did an outstanding job um on that and i have to commend him greatly and the entire team for raising a lot of money for a great scholarship uh dr robertosi um also to sam sam i have to thank you there's just so many events that you you have to be at and uh with the end of the year coming there's so many events that you're gonna be at um you're just always there to get the picture to get the story to get it out onto social media to let the public know what great things are happening in clifton so i commend you for the the amount of time and the hours that you put in um and having to attend these things last night uh two nights ago at the uh at the academic awards you know you were right there and you got some great photos and that's what we want we want to showcase our kids our kids do great things and and i just have to commend you on the great job that you're doing and then now you have to be here to to do this as well i thank you the academic awards dinner as everyone spoke about what a great success it was uh sushnep and as i know rsue peters and her entire team uh to pull off an event like that um many people tell sue that she should go into the uh the catering business and probably make more money than she does as a as a vice principal but uh we don't want her to do that she does a great job uh at putting this together and putting a team together um to put that type of event and 1200 some odd people there um it just was a great success so i uh i commend her and her entire team uh for such a great job these are some great things that are happening in the district um i usually don't like to uh to answer things because people in the public know who i am and what i do and what i've done and uh 25 000 of them came out and voted for me a couple years ago so people really know what's going on um the shenanigans that take place here took place uh with the president that was before me took place with the president ahead of them took place with other people and you know i guess until you actually sit in the chair and know how to do it um i guess it's easy to to throw daggers at people i receive numerous emails from the public and board members i do my best as a volunteer to get those emails answered i don't need to owe anyone an explanation i'm not a paid employee i don't know anyone exclamation but as a good person as a christian i tell the truth if someone doesn't want to abide listen to that i don't care so when i told someone that i forgot to sit hit the send button it was the truth and it happened one time one time not to mention the 9000 other emails i've received that i did reply to but again i do the best that i can as a volunteer uh in this position um and i think the rest of the board knows that that i answer you in a timely uh manner um you know when i had to go look through my logs again and go through everyone's requests um you know and i know a statement was made tonight about that we're wasting taxpayers money we should be going to the to the estate for opinions because it's free but there are certain board members that that lead the pack here on contacting the uh the board attorney um so if anyone wants to see uh how many times they've actually done that i have all the requests uh in writing so um you know our board attorney is here for the board and she does a phenomenal job um her bills are not extensive i i've you know as the longest member sitting on the board of education i've been through other attorneys i know what fees are out there um and i've told her to her face it's not just because she's sitting here but um she could charge us a lot more money than she does um there's many times when she doesn't even charge the board so um i you know when i look at the bills each month and i see that they're in line um i've discussed with my vice president mr daley on that as well um in no way do we feel any of her charges have been excessive um and she tries to do the right thing uh you know she's caught in a in a tough situation here you know board member asks to speak to her she feels it's appropriate to answer it she answers it and then we don't want to pay her for doing that you know i i don't see how you know we we can disagree on certain things but if someone performs the job and does the duty they deserve to get paid for it so i just hope going forward i will continue to do what i've been doing to allow board members to speak to the attorney um beltron made a very good suggestion that from now on we'll make sure that uh ms gutierrez sends out her answer that she answers that board member on to the entire board so everyone is on the the up and up on that um but i have true faith in her that if something was asked of her that was not appropriate for this board she would tell the person that it's not appropriate and would not answer them so i i have no uh i have no problems with that um you know as board president you know and i checked with other board presidents you know it's it's sometimes it's not nice to sit here and ask people to uh to remain orderly and do things in an orderly process but that's what the chair does um it has no bearing upon any individual or any cause that they have it's a it's a um a process that has to be followed and uh you know i you get ridiculed for following the process um like i said the many people that contact me um you know i hate using that as mr daley said you know they know what this is all about they know what we're doing in this district they know the leadership that this board has had and uh mr daley and i uh have a great team uh at the top we put a tremendous amount of time in um and uh we we feel it it truly shows to the board and the public knows the truth so i don't have to continue on that but um we are going to uh go to executive session we have uh two i i'm sorry i keep doing it new business sorry anyone for new business mr awad yeah i asked you in the beginning of the meeting you advised me that's new business also the board attorney um can we look into policy about alcohol being brought into school buildings or the administration building you mean you want wanted to be home no no no no i'm muslim i don't drink i swear no um just because a certain incident happened i'm just curious to know well if there's a policy in place yeah it's not allowed yeah we should have a policy on but we'll serve this yeah we can look which which exactly it is yeah something i need to know i guess i could tell um since we're gonna go tick for tat here um last meeting a member of the public dropped off for me um an alcoholic thing that he she made for me to be consumed outside of this meeting so it was just dropped off to me and then i brought her home obviously i wasn't consuming it in the building outside the building or on the days you would have seen it it was like a jello item just to clarify it was actually one board member handing another board member and it's on camera so if i decide god forbid i want to bring coke or weed and give it to another board member that's allowed yeah alcohol is not allowed it's not allowed i'm just saying let's let's let's you can either have yourself or your wife right the ethics charges against me that's fine we'll uh we'll get the uh we'll get the exact policy out to everybody on that uh so can i can i review what policy stuff we have right now in case i miss anything um dress code which is uh sex ed which is called sex side which is the comprehensive health and physical education zero one seven four login process which we'll look at also i can't excuse me she's talking to me all right well you both could take it outside um which we could look at that mirrors accountability regulations which even mirrors the accountability regulations as ms gutierrez said it may mirror each other right is that what you mentioned about which policy zero one seven conversations going on zero one seven four everyone forgot what the superintendent said well kindness is good for our hearts zero one tonight zero one seven login process log in log and process you said that there's a mirror of the accountability regulations correct so that's what i'd like to review um and the one thing i would like to add well and one mr watson about the alcohol meetings um and what i like what to add and this is just because i notice not just the man to my right but others that cell phone board members during meetings whether while it's board business or not board business it may give the impact or the impression that it is sport business and not knowing because of opmah what public opinion has to offer on certain conversations during the days and on the dais so i'd like to add that myself and we have it but we need to review it [Music] anybody else anything else for the order new business i have something yes um i used my phone to adjust my hearing aids because when the mics go on it kills me when i have it up to four if i can't hear someone that's my phone um i have i wear hearing aids i lost my hearing during covid um [Music] there was a there was a statement made by a member of the audience and i wrote it down and now i lost it hold on um that there was a presentation that was um um there was a presentation that was uh rescheduled and he thanked a board member and he also thank the board so i'd like to know what what that conversation was because i didn't get anything on rescheduling of any presentations and also um i'd like to know who the spokesperson for the board is um i can uh since my name was rhoda by mr bunciak so mr brunsiak reached out to me as a board member and said hey um 7 30 board member and this presentation overlap i said i do not know anything about that i snapshot of that sent it to the superintendent i think thereafter mr superintendent an email went out and said it's six for six to seven and he responded back to me and responded to him and he said thank you never responded to him i sent it straight to the to the superintendent who is the ceo of our district and has actually has to deal with the public but never responded to him and i think you want to speak so glad yes thank you mr smith just to clarify the change was made prior to any board member coming to me we had scheduled these parent presentations back in december we pick our board meeting dates at the january reorg so when we realized unfortunately a little late that um the board meeting was the same night as the first parent presentation we just adjusted the time instead of six to seven thirty we made it from six to seven and so no one would think that we didn't offer enough opportunities we added an additional date so i'm not sure how mr brunsiak was involved mr abu drabba did ask me the question and i told him that we had already made the change so that's but i did ask a question who is the spokesperson for the board i i wanted the public to hear this who is the spokesperson for the board generally speaking the spokesperson for the board is the board president thank you i believe you have a policy on that yeah um i i just wanted it to be reiterated thank you you're welcome so for the good order going back to my question everybody has anthony for policy and i didn't target this man to my right and nobody else but does anybody have anything else in my pocket to add to policy i'm a big target stop talking so the first tuesday of every month is policy does anybody have any order i will ask again probably in a week or two just to make sure just the the dress code that's called yeah correct we will review i'll ask one more time i'll review one more time we will review dress code review 0174 review the cell phone open board members during board meetings and then also what this gentleman to my right hand it's also another policy that speaks to the about um um policies being amended and they could be amended first reading um so i'd like that discussed as well i'm sorry repeat one more time please there is a policy that speaks about um uh policies being amended it's uh it speaks to the um the we are allowed to amend the policy on the first reading there was a big discussion a couple meetings ago that that wasn't the case it's under oh 131 item five thank you mr paris you said item five item five thank you anybody else for the good order we already have the other one which is the other one just like we went over five things the one the one that you tabled that you didn't want to seven zero four yeah we have one list yes i did okay just wanna make sure all right thank you dr danny yeah i i was just wondering um if it's possible the uh june 23rd meeting to to make it june 22nd i have my school graduation it's part of my requirement after work that evening so i you know from my school district and i can't attend that june 23rd so i didn't know if it was you know if everybody could make june 22nd to change it if if you can't it's all right i'll keep the 23rd judy no doesn't work i mean if it doesn't work for you know i mean i i would appreciate it yeah motion to change the june 23rd meeting to june 22nd second second my mr abu drabbo um yeah i i just i think administration needs some time to make sure it doesn't you could you just conflict with anything that's going on in the district your staff all that stuff right then i'll withdraw the motion and make it next next meeting just did we just check maybe yeah just um i don't see anything on the calendar but let me just double check that there's nothing uh and we also need to check with the city and okay you know we don't like to have a meeting if they're having a planning board meeting or right and although the tv is not working right now hopefully it'll be working by then so all right by next meeting i'll be able to tell you if you tell me then i won't bring it up if it's not you know what i mean because i haven't done that no that's not it two it's two june second yeah 23rd yeah there's two that's why there's graduation right it's just a commitment to the school it's part of i have to be there for grad it's like i can't tell them that i have them you tell them give me the number all right so administration will check on that and then bring it back to us for uh for the next meeting is there any other new business okay seeing none the board uh will convene into executive session we have a contract matter and a personnel matter uh action will be taken motion to go into executive systems mr aberdrive was second by mr awad oh yeah uh we planned to be in there probably 40 minutes in that area all right the board met an executive session to discuss a contract matters and a um employee matter um so a roll call on uh was the p i mean excuse me roll call back from the executive session mr abhijabo here mr awad here miss bassford yeah miss beltran here mr kanova here dr danny here mr paris here vice president ellie here president smith here we have a quorum okay um motion uh to approve p 28 is it correct motion by mr alvarez second by mr awad any discussion roll call please mr abbado mr awad yes miss basford abstain miss beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny true um yes i'm sorry mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes who she carries casing no other order of business motion to a journalist ocean second drive will save my mr rewind any objection adjourned you

thanks for doing it a discussion following susie being with us uh not quite 10 years but she she was here and left and then came back yeah the last step was like five years so family happy retirement yes uh carol yes amy yes and stephanie yes thank you i have the recommendation to accept the donation of 1 500 for national history day award and teacher of the year awards from brown county do you community foundation motion to receptive donation of fifteen hundred dollars for national history day as presented any discussion thank you so very much the brown county foundation um are these i know the teacher of the year award what is the history award imagine mr austin is not here to report out so i can give you an update that would just be new i mean so any other discussion roll call carol yes amy yes vicky yeah stephanie carey's thank you i have the recommendation to accept the donation of 500 to the brown county high school football program from big woods do you have a motion to accept the donation from the 500 for the football program at the high school second i'll second any discussion does it have to be used for anything in specific anything specific or it says on the request they have no specifications on how to use it is for whatever the program needs okay or within the football room any other discussion will call errol yes amy yes vicky yeah stephanie yes question carries thank you i have the recommendation to appear the donation of 800 to the brown county high school girls softball program from uca distributed you have a motion to accept a donation from uca distributing of 800 to the high school softball girls program i still move any discussion says it's to pay for spirit ware roll call carol yes amy yes vicky yeah stephanie we have consent agenda items we'll start with the separation of brown county middle school master teacher cindy stark effective at the conclusion of the 2021-2022 school year through the transfer of brown county high school junior varsity baseball coach jacob reel to brown county high school assistant varsity baseball coach effective may 19 2022.

you don't make it happen [Applause] come on over daniel so daniel orianna arrived in this country as a teenager attending sitting bull academy in the seventh grade daniel has been a member of asb for all four years at apple valley high school serving as president his senior year asb depend or apple valley high school depended heavily on daniel's about ability to rally the troops when setting up for a mirador of events on campus throughout his year daniel also dedicated his time to improving the campus with various projects as a member of the eco club daniel has also taken 10 ap courses and is most proud of passing ap spanish as a freshman and ap spanish literature as a sophomore yeah wow earning fives on each test so we didn't just pass them he passed them with fives which is the top you can get daniel will graduate as a valedictorian next week and will attend ucla in the fall pursuing a degree in physics daniel [Applause] um so daniel may not know this but i've watched him since he was in seventh grade because he's always leading he's always up front not in front like this but he's always in front and as a student um watching his growth from coming to this country to where he is today and getting ready to enter ucla same expectation class of 2022 to the class of 2026 you make them get you done on time okay [Applause] okay i'm gonna have the board come back and sit down we'll get through our other things and start a presentation and bring you back up thank you uh daniel there's something missing in the bag because it didn't get delivered so it's supposed it's on track for tomorrow it'll be delivered to the high school all right moving just right along here we just need to finish this little bit of business here and that is reports from um california school employees association csea are you uh in the house okay apple valley unified school district a buddha anybody in the house for a presentation tonight all right okay uh moving on to number five adoption agenda the board may approve there's no readouts for closed sessions so clerk um you're off the hook tonight there you go all right uh item five adoption of the agenda the board may approve the agenda as is or add or pull items from consent calendar uh do we have a motion bender second second nunes all in favor any opposed hearing none that'll be the order okay now we move on to the important stuff recognition presentation and um we've already recognized daniel and ella so student recognitions pat schlosser assistant superintendent educational services thank you folks and if the board your rest was short so come on back up here and uh if you we could get you arranged here at the front of the diocese we'll bring students up and students will have you come as we call your name to get a certificate uh shake the hands of the board members and have you go down toward mr schulenburg and we'll get you kind of grouped up there in the chunks of the different kinds of awards and allow your parents to get a quick photograph of you arranged here tonight so um yeah something like that will work nicely a lot of handshaking a lot of clapping that's what this night's about these recognitions are for a number of different activities through the year and we know that there's lots of different events that you've already participated in if you're a senior especially things like senior awards and so we're not going to redo all of those same things but there are some certain awards that are particularly significant and we're going to start with those that represent students who excelled at skillsusa it's a competition that allows students to exercise their skill and ability in a variety of career technical areas or leadership and so we had students who participated both regionally and then at the state level and at the state level this next group of students placed in the top three top three in the states with the students in the top the very top gold level who will go on to nationals so we're going to start with the bronze medal winners for various activities we're going to bring them up and uh again if they'll go down the line here start here with mr conrad and work your way to the south and so um this uh this is a perfectly appropriate because i'm struggling over my speaking an excellent external speaker bronze nathan morton [Applause] in the area of first aid cpr carson faunville [Applause] health occupations professional portfolio giselle mendoza oh she's here i'm sorry about that congratulations thank you medical math giselle day [Applause] nurse assisting abby lewis [Applause] t-shirt design victoria schulenberg [Applause] it's not track but i like it congratulations good job all good all good and a team of uh promotional bulletin board uh participants bronze medal winners faith lester alicia orland and amara vsoniak [Applause] so we'll get a group picture real quick with those bronze if you want to and if they want to stay we'll start lining up the silvers folks want to make your way over for those of you who have children who are seniors it's the last couple times to do this silver medals second in state for the skillsusa creed competition wyatt mejia [Applause] second in state facilithon aiden conrad job skill demonstration silver samantha de la paz [Applause] opening and closing ceremonies a large team silver medal second in state to the team of allison de la de la yana andrew de leona melanie alexander wade isabel cornejo madeleine eisenbray orlando perez and simran aluwalia [Applause] thank you congratulations oh yep congratulations congratulate them [Applause] pin design another design contest silver best second in state melissa martinez [Applause] practical nursing christine nguyen [Applause] and medical assisting laura ramos lopez [Applause] those are our silver medal winners second in state bring them come on up and get a photo the next group are gold medal winners top in the state and they will be able to participate in the national competition in atlanta in june students include for the both 2021 and 2022 action skills logan cortes nunez i did audio radio production tiffany ho ching johnson [Applause] and matthew renteria [Applause] for the creed competition gold jalen cerna basic health care skills caitlin vargas mechatronics timothy hinckley [Applause] this is part of a team another member mechatronics alan sanchez rodriguez [Applause] medical assisting jessica archuleta [Applause] medical math hayley gray [Applause] nurse assisting panagiata benitados [Applause] pin design piper korea [Applause] restaurant service david applegate [Applause] when we were in a pinch david came and helped us too he's a great help thank you so much for the arts communication cluster a group to put out an amazing display a team of three young women going gold medal winners team of abigail harrison aubry reese and madison wheatcroft carry all three of them cnc milling specialist and this student also earned a four thousand dollar haas scholarship ty claire and i'm not supposed to have favorites in this list but this kid's pretty special cnc turning specialist and also a four thousand dollar haa scholarship dominic schlosser [Music] [Applause] folks if you want to get a picture of our gold medal winners let's send these kids off to atlanta with the big support from apple valley um the next group of students also competed in medical related competitions you heard several listed earlier because skillsusa does include medical competitions this particular competition set coming up next next is for the health occupation students of america hosa the 2022 state achievements these students earn special recognition at their state level conference first for the hosa bowl nationals savannah green [Applause] accompanying her will be caitlin vargas [Applause] another team member uma kumar [Applause] and another also going to nationals giselle [Applause] day yeah second place healthy lifestyles also advancing to nationals sahara garibay third place healthy lifestyles also going to nationals elena lopez hosa finalist and medical assisting jessica archuleta [Applause] a retiring hosa state officer from the last school year who finished her term of office and we want to recognize that contribution to the state tammy watt [Applause] newly elected hosa state officer beginning her term in the next school year autumn strange and that makes our hosa award winner group if we want to grab a quick photo there [Applause] the next couple of groups are small one student in in several different minor categories that are major in their accomplishment and so we won't have them have to stay and group up we'll have um folks who want to get a picture we'll do that right away up here or you can head down if you want to meet your folks down there for a photograph yes a little climate control thank you so much some of these kids are doing some laps so the future farmers of america program another california state student ctso one of our tea our technical organizations for students to demonstrate skill and ability we have a high desert section vice president which is a important office with a lot of responsibility please congratulate alyssa scott [Applause] traditionally we've had science fair winners here we have there's been some changes at the county to the science fair program we still have many students who participated in this particular student participated at the california state level has participated in science fair every year i can remember from when i was with her at vanguard at very early elementary school age she did another wonderful job please congratulate alessandria reader [Applause] without you at the county level we had students participate locally in a spelling bee and then move their way up through the region we had one student from apple valley unified school district from sandia school who took third in the county dean anderson [Applause] the rotary conducts a speech contest every year that helps students practice their speech skills but also gives out scholarships this year the rotary four-way speech contest first place win winner kimberly soltero [Applause] music in the parks choir competition outstanding soloist jeremiah sandoval [Applause] from our english language development department students who demonstrated excellence in development of english language and also the gift of multilingualism the students who did the best in their programs chosen by the staff from apa valley high school sabrina stephanie benitez benitez [Applause] from high desert premier academy samantha maria barra [Applause] from granite hills high school daniel alejandro garcia perez [Applause] although that senior award night special scholarships were celebrated there are two that are particularly important and special for our system because they are rare and unique the morning sun children's foundation scholarship of twenty thousand dollars awarded to a hard-working student and recipient seth foyles [Applause] likewise we have a recipient of the amazon future engineers scholarship which is a ring a forty thousand dollar scholarship that also results in a paid internship upon graduation um he's an outstanding student who's one of our valedictorians but also a valedictorian at bvc where he's earning his associate's degree at this same time um he's what he's he shares an office with me he's a web intern who uh has helped us build our website through this school year just an outstanding young man headed off um to school at princeton himalay gonzalez [Applause] if you thought you were busy we participated in the mountain desert career partnerships group it's a region of nine school districts over 20 schools where students also compete locally in particular areas in one of the areas was a hackathon students were given a task to perform in a computer programming model third place in for again on 20 school area jaden greg [Applause] faith rorbaugh [Applause] jamari williams [Applause] isaiah reveron [Applause] khadija meadow [Applause] nathan morton [Applause] still with hackathon kaylee cromwell [Applause] jacob kleinsmith [Applause] gavin liu [Applause] teresa [Applause] first place alan sanchez rodriguez [Applause] timothy hinckley [Applause] while he's making his way up edwin saylor [Applause] philip hernandez [Applause] and jordan mora [Applause] the next group participated in something called chopped it is like it sounds a culinary contest where students are required to prepare a meal the second place team in our region four students uh apple valley high school team kendall everett cody gentile isabella belletti and yvette gonzalez [Applause] thank you digital design they also had to design a t-shirt third place jay sebastian gutierrez [Applause] and second place to fausto gonzalez [Applause] digital design the team that had to design an advertisement third place avery white [Applause] and second place ashland buick video design another four student four student team in this competition jacob kleinsmith samantha lurley israel villegas and elijah garabay the last group of students is our san bernardino county young artists gallery winners in the artists category digital art john carlo hurtado [Applause] for photography kendall everett [Applause] also for photography james steingall [Applause] for painting samantha lurley [Applause] also painting naeli linderos [Applause] and painting gabrielle soto [Applause] for ceramics gabriella selner [Applause] lake montoya [Applause] eden pinellas and litzy martinez [Applause] i think i share with all here gathered how joyous it is to be here in this room full of joy and celebration thank you so much for coming and thank you to the board for this event [Applause] him hey students and families if you would stick for just a few more minutes the next part is our retirees and we would love for our students to celebrate the people that have served your kids all these years it would be wonderful thank you [Music] thank you all right the slideshow is ready when you are ladies and gentlemen i i want to thank you and i thank the students for that stayed back for this next presentation that we have we'd like to take this time and celebrate the retirees from apple valley unified school district and what a great act to follow in which they each got to see the fruits of their labor and and all they've poured into to their careers and time spent serving our community and serving our students uh now it's time to put them in the spotlight a little bit hear about their next steps um but in our system i do want to address every retiree that we're going to call up here tonight where they're going to give them a little bag and inside that bag we have we have an apple you know this little trophy that we get to them but our system we already honor all of our employees uh in five year increments those that are here 5 10 15 20 years get a pin that acknowledges you know how many years they've served the district once they hit that 25th year they get this granite or i'm sorry marble apple they get on 30 years 35 years there's crystal apples there's just this progression of apples that they get as their longevity with our system uh goes on and on we just gave and recognized a lot of awards for students that have skills outside of what most of us would consider to be the typical academia the you know these are students that came up and received awards for the most part today um recognizing their abilities for hands-on and this trophy is is something that i personally hold more near and dear to those ones even that you get for 35 and 40 years of service because this is crafted you'll notice the upper part of the trophy they're about they're going to receive resembles i don't know if we are stealing trademark materials but if you look at the yucca loma bridge they have an apple exactly like this at the entry points of the bridge as you go over it and mr casey penfold's welding class are the students that put together this apple for us mr reese in the woodshop class puts the base together for us we work with our industry partners um performance powder coating does the powder coating awards and recognition gives the name plate and it really is kind of an all-encapsulating image or or tangible object or fuel trophy that represents who we are as a community and and it's an honor to hand these trophies to our retirees who have given of themselves for many many years many decades and many cases and some almost could you could argue close to half a century so with that i'd like i'll start a slideshow i'll talk through some we have 14 people that we're going to be recognizing some of them have already said the grass is greener and i'm not driving in from texas or kentucky or wherever they've landed at this point but others have sent us information and i'd like to just kind of take this moment to go go through these folks um our very first one mr brian rowell out of our it department in the image we promise not to show the risk manager or workman's comp team from sliding down the water slide but thank you we asked each each retiree to give us some of their their memories or most accomplished moments um you can see his plans are going to hang out with grandchildren in tennessee uh and has made a lot of friends he has a comment up here that i didn't ask for him to explain uh but he states that he's had a lot um i should have wore my glasses i had a lot of fun with the friends i've made at av usd i've worked with all the schools and all the sites and made many friends i've even married a couple of them so congratulations [Applause] he performed the marriages oh what did i read it wrong he said i even married a couple these are his words not mine my good grief i'm always getting set up oh you performed the marriages i thought you said reformed i'm sorry like ears and eyes i need i need a new set of both i think uh cheryl bailey um not here cheryl uh incredibly proud i love how she emphasizes um spending the time with children as her most significant accomplishment um and she's one that the commute from kentucky back to us to get the trophy just wasn't in the cards but congratulations cheryl hopefully you're watching us online and we will miss you all right next retiree i'm sure he answers this question as much as i do no we're not related but bruce conrad also not here retired mid-year active part of opening two middle schools he does make reference uh that you know his funny or most poignant memory was working with virgil barnes tom hogan and how vista compania was a family culture and becoming friends with ken bedell who we will talk about later so congratulations bruce next retiree laurie roberts she i saw something oh come on up lori lori uh i i'm gonna share what you shared and and uh and recognize the pressure that you put on your family first of all we appreciate her willingness to give us a couple weeks to help us start out next year before she officially hangs it up and goes so she's gonna help us launch the next school year but on her slide or her questions her immediate plans after uh retirement are to play with all 12 of her grandchildren but her long-term plans are to play with all 24.

so moved on moved by mr abu dhabi second by mr awad discussion yes mr president yes mr kenobi uh on ea one we have a policy here uh zero one six seven and at the end of the policy it says the portion of the meeting during which the participation of the public is invited may be limited to 60 minutes and will be concluded by 11 pm is this a new addition to to the policy no this is this is not a new addition now this has been on your policy for many years excuse me one person has the floor okay mr uc do you want to comment on that i mean as far as i know i've seen that language in that policy okay is policy committee made any changes to that no no so so my concern with this this portion here um is that if things run late kind of like what they are doing tonight if this had happened earlier or every night when we have uh a couple of uh demonstrations or illustrations then followed by some some information um things could go past these these times here we could have public comment at 10 30 so does that mean we close it at 11 o'clock so right but i told joe you could adjust it at any time which we've had same thing with the the midnight can't go past midnight we we make extensions to that so um i did check back uh with previous presidents and this has been on the uh the books for quite some time so if you want policy to look at that that's that's fine but yes miss uh dr robertosi mr gone i think the intent is um in the event there is such a controversial issue that the line is around the block it gives the board the ability to say okay we're going to limit this tonight because otherwise we'll be here for 24 hours i don't know that this has ever been implemented in clifton i don't believe it ever has i hope that we never get to the point where anybody thinks that it's a good idea to implement that but i don't think it's a my opinion it's a board decision but i don't think it's a bad thing to have in the policy kind of a just in case i don't foresee us ever using it any anything further okay roll call uh for ea mr abedrabo yes mr awad yes miss bassford i don't know what we're voting on because i stepped out of the room to go to the bathroom so could somebody enlighten me sure there's a motion in second for the the ea section of the agenda yes miss beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny yes mr paris yes vice president daily yes and president smith yes motion carries okay next we have c personnel we have p one through p 31 but we're yes mr smith um i request that we pull a p28 for executive session uh but i'd like to give a reason publicly because i know there are some of our employees probably watching from home there's one issue i have to discuss with the board in closed session i don't expect it to be a problem so i don't want anybody at home thinking that they're not getting hired i believe will come out of executive session and this resolution will pass um so i just don't want anybody to get nervous but if we could pull p 28 for executive session okay p 28 pulled for executive the balance motion motion by mr abu drabo second by mr awad discussion seeing non-roll call please mr abu drabo yes with the extension on p20 mr awad yes miss bassford yes miss beltran yes mr canova yes dr danny yes mr paris uh yes but i'm staying on c19 vice president daley yes president smith yes motion carry okay next we have d financing facilities we have f1 through f9 promotion motion by mr abhijava second by mr awad discussion seeing non-roll call sorry mr abhijaba yes mr awad yes miss basford yes miss beltran uh yes on all except for in the uh claims list the uh the one um the one check two uh agl from three two uh that references the candidacy for re-election and council question mr canova yes dr danny yes mr paris yes vice president daley yes president smith yes mr mr president i'd like to also change my vote to uh vote no on the cheque no prop no problem thank you okay make that note okay you're up i am thought i was first left last time that's why no problem no you might have been let me see before board member comments no usually we don't okay um yeah it could uh mr uh mr awad then europe i have no comments tonight okay so mister okay uh miss beltran you're next so me miss beltran when you're ready i'll also keep it short and be a little bit longer than yours um i just like to thank all the speakers that come out i think it's really good for our democracy to have um two opposing viewpoints although he did share their comments respectfully back and forth i like to see and i hope to see in the future with other issues we saw it last week with the budget we've been seeing continuously with the uh the new standards and i hope you know we continue to see that type of participation um it makes our meetings a little bit more lengthy but i don't mind that because i think we're up here to listen to the comments and concerns of the people and to try and represent um how we feel the town wants things to be done and i like to hear the input from our fellow townspeople um i liked also that the student representative talked about the dress codes because that's been an issue for at least as long as i've been going to school so at least 30 years i wore the boys uniform to school and i went to a uniform school and that was like very controversial back then because um you were supposed to wear the jumper and i was like you're not putting that on me i'm not wearing the jumper i'm going to wear the pants and the sweater vest my mom called me a mailman every day going to school but i embraced you know what i what i wanted to wear um and i think it is you know a fashion problem right now that it is difficult to find clothing that no like fits your body type first and then after that is appropriate for school sometimes those two things don't coincide um so i think it is a larger issue same as the student representative thought that it's larger than just clifton but there's no reason that a district our size can't be on the forefront of maybe maybe incorporating it into these new discussions about sexual orientation everything like that about how to respect someone regardless of what they're wearing um you know whether someone is wearing a dress or someone's wearing a pantsuit you know either way they deserve the same respect and they should be able to learn the same environment um i also wouldn't want to speak to the the people who are saying that elementary school is too young for a lot of these discussions i'm on the team of feeling that some of those discussions are too young but i do feel that in middle school especially uh those conversations do need to happen um so i think maybe kindergarten in my personal opinion is way too young but i think the middle school curriculum that is appropriate and forwards um i know we don't we get we have to vote it in but we don't unfortunately the way it's been to explain to us at least is that we don't get much say into what can be changed that the curriculum is coming from the state it has to be worked in it can be presented different ways but the core curriculum has to be the same tonight some present um presenters talked about that boards are voting against it so i'll do some research on my own about how other boards are handling it um but again i i really applaud everyone who came and speak tonight and i hope that they continue to show up at every meeting going forward miss bassford yes thank you first of all i want to apologize for losing my cool for those that know me know how passionate i get about an issue because it's real to me it's really real to me when you email the board president you wait a while then you have to send another email as a reminder and then he responds to you saying that he forgot to hit the send button in his response and then you go through all of this it just builds on the disrespect that goes bang bang bang it's like a peg board like them all in the hull game you know that you keep on getting pegged and you get angry and if i disrespected anyone on this board i apologize but you know what my work speaks for itself my dedication speaks for itself my commitment to the kids of this district speaks for itself my integrity my accountability speaks for itself i hold my head up very high when i go to bed at night knowing that i did the best i could do every day making decisions based on safety for children keeping children safe keeping children educated keeping children first not myself that's why i'm here because the voters put me here because they know my work was number nine on the ballot proud of that proud of the position i came in because the people spoke to me and they put me here i had to leave this room to compose myself yeah i get angry but i'm a passionate person and i'm allowed to get angry when you feel disrespected proved it tonight didn't i i proved it tonight the disrespect i got the email i forgot to say i forgot to hit send okay right whatever all right so um i would like to thank all the speakers for coming out i would like to thank you for using your voice at the podium we do hear you we may not agree but we do hear you congratulations to the students of the month to the safety patrol students and to the parents and to the chaperones on the trip have a wonderful safe trip make memories that will last you a lifetime it is a wonderful thing that started so we're starting to open up everything's starting to happen um the other night we went to distinguished awards night at the west 1200 people were in the audience there it was a wonderful occasion that's when we get to honor the best of the best in each grade it makes other people strive for that which is something well that we do it really makes you say to yourself wow i'm part of this and i and the speaker he was so good some heard him some talked over him or some talked through him while he was speaking but i heard him i turned my chair around just to listen to him he talked about perseverance i heard his message and it was so encouraging that people in that audience heard his message as well perseverance no matter what's thrown at me i will persevere i promise you because at the end of the day good always always overcomes evil thank you [Music] mr canova good evening um first i just wanted to say uh the uh the event we attended the other day that dr robertozi threw for his student foundation was a great showing i think everyone had a great time i know i did myself but it was amazing to see how many people are out there supporting our students and their scholarships so that was nice to see this morning i indeed see off the uh the the fifth grades um safety patrol trip because my daughter's actually there this year um and she had her butterflies but she's she's doing good there i'm still waiting for the call so if i jump out it's because i'm going to receive her call um but i saw some pictures that they were sending over in the facebook group and she's very excited loves it i could just tell every picture is a smiling face her and all her friends there um and you're right those are memories are going to last a lifetime the dress code issue having three daughters i definitely understand the issue here there's not a store you can go to where you find these shorts you have to order them on amazon or there's some other place where things come in from china and they come in different sizes i don't know where they order from but they never fit right and and it's just always a big mess but if you go to any of these other stores abercrombie and all these other stores that she wants to buy things from they're all it's just the way they're made it's the style of cut it is what it is that's the design um and it's just funny to me because you could go to a beach and a guy with a shirt off could talk to a girl that looks like she has her bra and the panties on and it's fine but if that happened in any other setting it's it's a big issue um and i understand there's certain just for for certain attire for certain venues i'm not saying we should be wearing bikinis in school but um it's just funny to me how how people make a big deal about a three three-finger strap or something for a woman is just ridiculous so if those things are in there i think dress code is something we should talk about in policy if we can kick that back there and take a look at that the academic awards night what i found outstanding was that there were hundreds of students there so of the high school in order to have this accolade you need to have a 90 average or better for that term hundreds of students there and there was even a criteria for students that um did this for all four years and there was almost 100 students in that category meaning they had a 90 or above in all of their grades and all their marketing periods for all the four years they ate in high school i mean to me that's just amazing 100 students um and and uh we always want more uh but to me that that's just great and seeing the student here who had an associate's degree already and other students that do that are doing these things i think those are the things that we should be promoting i think those are the people that we should be showcasing getting out to the students so they could want to be like them they want to see people like them and they want to see people who are achieving these skills like them so if we could look at that and see if there's some sort of program we can roll out for that i think that would be amazing um but that's all i have for tonight thank you dr danny okay um i was asked to uh mention that on wednesday may 25th the clifton special education parent advisory group will hold a virtual meeting and anyone interested in joining the meeting please email clifton cpac cpag gmail.com for the meeting link that's cliftonsepag gmail.com for the meeting link come chat with members of the district to discuss how to best improve the educational experiences for all students in the special needs community again it's a virtual meeting it's wednesday may 25th at seven o'clock and you can email clifton cpag at gmail.com and other thing i'd just like to say some condolences to the family of deanna set up we just found out she had passed so um sorry for your loss and um i'd like to also thank the speakers who came out and spoke um again you know we do hear we might not agree you know we might not comment on everything um sometimes process things comment on a later date um but definitely thank you you know we live in a democracy and it's great to see people come up and and you know voice their opinions um i also attended the um academic awards dinner it was um really great and uh the one thing that i when i heard the speaker say he listed ten things one of them was perseverance when he talked to the students about the importance of um you know what to sort of take away from life and one of the things that um you know my mom always says and that he said he said um you know forgive those who do you harm you know and you talk about caring and that that's important you know if you harbor that it will eat you up and it will ultimately destroy who you are so i think it's just important to you know as hard as it could be but my mom always said that you know um those that do you harm you know just forgive them because you know we're not perfect and it's a hard thing to do but that's one thing that the speaker um said that sort of resonated with me and that's all i have to say good night uh mr paris thank you mr smith um not going to repeat what a lot of people have said already um i do agree with mr uh kenobi and miss beltran that we should look at this policy for dress code it's probably pretty outdated at this point also just two shameless plugs here one is uh the band is having car wash again saturday so if the weather's nice bring your car out and the community band is having their 20th anniversary concert on saturday at the high school at 2 p.m um proceeds go to the education foundation and to the mustang band alumni association scholarship fund so if you have want to hear some some good music come on out and join us thank you mr abhijava thank you president smith um senior athletic center is june 6th uh and senior scholarship events is june 1st it's great to see a lot of college graduates being photos being put all over facebook that's when we know our high school graduations are right around the corner to the family school 17 and deanna's family i'm sorry for your loss it's a tough thing um speaking to superintendent i know she was battling for a while um but um may god bless our family and give him the patience and um make sure us in peace uh the academic award center was great i'm not gonna reiterate the rest uh as the colleagues safety patrol is phenomenal uh joe and i were able to see um well he had a reason to be there yeah he had his daughter there um uh which is even more interesting but it was great to see that when the buses showed up uh it's like a rock concert and a limo showed up where everybody was like hey let's go and tell their parents can can i go already like they were excited which was great um to toba's discussion um as she was speaking i noticed i looked around the room and there were a lot of judgmental eyes and she didn't see that but i did and we talked about showing tolerance and showing acceptance and while some people didn't say it in words but rolled their eyes and shook her they shook their heads and particularly mumble things under under their breaths when a person is speaking i think is rude and while we can disagree as many have said here tonight i think there's a way to disagree respectfully um so i'm just believe about that which goes to my next thing last meeting something was done and said and i'm gonna quote really quick maybe a few minutes ago i got a little off out of line and i apologize if i offended anyone that's what somebody said last speaker last meeting that considers talking about god and the power of prayer to me god and evil do not go in hand last week i think was the most disgusting act of inciting hatred in this city raising your arm and a sense of pure pure evil in the history of this world okay is nothing but disgusting and disturbing and if anyone thinks of following up with the words if i offended you definitely needs help and intervention or they have a pure soul i'm sorry evil soul because i'm sorry i that was the line for me you can disagree you can talk it out but that pushed the line many know what i'm talking about who are here and others do not and i will not say what was said or what was done and nor do i even imitate it because it was pure disgusting and not only to to a religion which affects and impacts a religion and history of people but the history of this society that's all i had to say thank you vice president daley uh thank you mr president um first of all i'd like to send the cons condolences to the steve family um i'm i know her family very well and um i know the end is long battled that she has so it's um and personally i went through our own in our own family so it's a it's it's a really tough time so my heartfelt condolences goes out to the entire family and um i know very well that she and i know we're going to have a con condolences resolution at the next meeting how much she loved teaching and even despite her seriousness of her illness she made every ever to get into the classroom i'd like to go on i like to talk about last last our last meeting and particularly on the budget i've served on this board for 13 years i've been on a planning war for 20.

all right congratulations everybody [Applause] couple couple things be safe tonight okay be safe at the prom be safe driving to the prom don't text stay off the phones don't be distracted when you're driving to and from the prom remember remember there's tomorrow and this is just one day and the best advice that i can give you about college or your life after high school is to follow your dreams what you're passionate about find something that you're passionate about whether it's medicine okay perricone's on his way so find what you're passionate about maybe it's art maybe it's cooking maybe it's education maybe it's nursing taking care of people whatever you like to do find that and take the next and a couple years to find out what you like to do and then pursue that as your career when i graduated high school i was a lot like a lot of you i was undecided i went to kutztown university undecided and after a year i had to pick a major and i chose political science i thought i wanted to study law and become a lawyer but when i found when i graduated college i found out what lawyers really do and i didn't like that and i decided to take a job working with students with special needs at mercer county special services and i loved it and i went back to school at nights at uh the college in new jersey back then it was called trenton state college this was like 1991 and a lot of you weren't even born then um [Applause] so you know you find what you like to do and then i and i i started teaching and coaching and i loved it and you know that's what life is about it's about trying new things and finding what you love and doing that you know that's the most important thing and the best advice for those of you that are going to college your first semester is going to be the hardest when you get there you're going to have to for the first time figure things out on your own your your parents won't be there you know miss jarrett won't be there to remind you to get to class miss cons isn't going to come follow you and get you out of the bathroom [Applause] all right you're going to have to do it on your own [Applause] and listen listen like miss jared said those professors they have classes this just just listen up for one minute the professors especially some of the co you know the classes the larger classes are going to be the size of this auditorium and you're going to have to sit in there and figure it out so the most important thing i think for your first year of college your first semester is really managing your time you're gonna have to manage your time to study you're gonna have to manage your time to get to class to eat to have fun all that's gonna you're gonna have to create a schedule for yourself here in high school you the schedule is given to you you know you have class school starts at 7 45 you stroll your seniors stroll in around 805 usually but in college you're going to be missing 20 minutes of class if you do that so schedule your classes at times you know like if you're a morning person you like to be up early schedule them in the morning if you're an afternoon person schedule them in the afternoon but get yourself a schedule and a routine because that's going to be probably the most important thing for you as you move ahead is mr perricone here okay all right so i'm going to turn it over to mr parrakone he's going to give you some advice about the workforce and let's give him a big round of applause [Applause] what's going on guys i'm happy to be here to talk to you before you guys all graduate and um i just want to give a little bit give me a little bit of applause how many people had me during high school for a business class all right so you guys all know that um i ran my own business and i do teach uh at graduate school and undergraduate school at centenary college up in hackettstown and i'm here to talk to you guys about a pretty important issue that employers have in 2022 and it really comes down to professional development so do you guys know the difference between hard skills and soft skills all right i hear yes i hear no this is what i want you guys to really focus on during the summer time you know understand that your soft skills and hard skills are really what employers are looking for all right so once you identify what they are understand what needs to be improved that's that's my advice to you over the summer time so let me for those of you that don't know hard skills they're part of the skill set that's required in the job so when you get a job you know you went to school you have training you have specific skills that's what you're hired to do so either you know coding you know product management skills you have digital marketing skills those are the hard skills in the other term we have something called soft skills this is where employers say that their employees are lacking they're lacking soft skills and i can see the scot the soft skills being lacked here at the high school all right so what are soft skills they're non-technical skills that relate to how you work they include how you interact with your colleagues with your peers how you solve problems how you manage your work mr shamil is talking about getting on time time management i mean time management are you handing things on time are you meeting the projected time schedule are you showing up to work on time soft skills are you a self-motivator all right what motivates you if you've had my classes we talked about these things are you a good problem solver are you a good critical thinker can you resolve conflict these are all soft skills do you know how to negotiate how many people know how to negotiate okay so keep in mind guys these are just some of the things are you a good leader so you know work on your soft skills and if you don't know what they are guys you see soft skills are like like your personal skills how do you relate with people you know and you know i have a little bit of i had a presentation that i was going to do but um you know here's some hard facts all right employers these are hard facts guys so listen up employers can teach you hard skills but employers expect you to know soft skills soft skills really can't be taught all right you could take classes and you could try to improve on them but a lot of times it's from within and this is what i want you guys to remember generally people lose their jobs due to the lack of soft skills all right so when we look at uh some of the following things that i have here is this you listen to what i'm saying and see if this is you do you possess this do you have the ability to work as a team

we'll check back outside it was between east stroudsburg and fdu i don't know which one he chose so we'll we'll follow up and we'll get back to you all right moving right along to students who will be attending hbcus here to speak for a few minutes about her experience attending hampton university is one of our assistant principals miss jarrett all right guys good morning i can't see anything i can't see anything test test all right i can't see anything so i don't know where everyone is sitting i want to say congratulations to everyone this is my favorite time of the year because i know that you guys are graduating and moving on and the world is out there for you to explore i did attend hampton university historically black college and university once i stepped on the campus of hampton i knew that it was for me it felt like home immediately and i am so happy with my decision that i'm always going to be an advocate for hbcus i know several period i know several of you i know several of you are moving south that's one of the things that i would say i fell in love with the weather i well i like new jersey but as soon as i go back to virginia it's like a different a different atmosphere so if you're moving to north carolina maryland morgan state howard elizabeth city state bowie university clark atlanta and university of maryland east ensure best of you best of luck to you one of the things i will say that in your experience as an hbcu alumni you will definitely make lasting friendships wherever you go doesn't matter which hbc hbcu attend when you go somewhere and you just let people know you went to an hbcu it's like you've gained another family member so i hope that you guys also feel the same when you get your degree another thing that i hope that you guys understand is that when you go to an hbcu there is a rich tradition there and you are carrying on the legacy if you if you're not sure hbcus were established after for the most part the civil war when a lot of institutions would not accept persons of color and even your native americans so at hampton we have or we had a strong native american population as well so you will definitely be part of a legacy and you'll be carrying on a tradition of just what it means to be an hbcu grad this next set of recommendations is for anyone moving on when you get to college you're going to have so much freedom and responsibility at the same time i hope that you get your system early find your rhythm and understand that once your professors give you your syllabus you have been told okay if you don't read it that is your problem because you've been told so i hope that you understand that early on make sure you establish a a dedicated note-taking system uh first few days of class you're not going to know how do i organize and that was one of the things i had a friend show me how to organize my notes and it just carried me through the four years so you definitely have to have a a serious note-taking system otherwise you're going to be all over the place there may be times where you're going to question whether or not you belong you're going to sit in class and you're going to hear people and they may sound like a genius and they may be but you are deserving and if you're not sure what to do you ask someone so don't be afraid don't feel like what am i gonna do i don't be long you do belong you're more than qualified you're deserving okay make sure you take good care remember no one's going to be there to wake you up some cases you don't have to go to class so make sure you take good care make sure you're eating well working out whatever it is for you but make sure you take good care get involved early that was i would say a regret of mine i really didn't get involved till my senior year missed out on a lot but definitely get involved early and then finally have fun the four years will go by fast you're going to recognize it you're getting your college degree so please enjoy experience that's all i have all right our first senior who will be attending at hbcu next year is dante hall johnson dante will be attending elizabeth city state university in north carolina to play football and study business next up we have nazira harrell not zero will be attending the university of maryland eastern shore in princeton and maryland where she plans on studying criminal justice and sociology congratulations elsewhere in maryland we have two seniors who will be attending bowie state university in prince george's county first up morris glover [Applause] morris decided to attend bowie based on the fact that he has cousins and family friends who live near the campus he plans on studying marketing he's already earned a scholarship since solar landscape joining morris at bowie state will be jakaya higgins [Applause] jakaya felt like attending an hbcu would be the best experience for her she plans on studying psychology because she cares a lot about the mental health of her generation we have two students who plan on attending clark atlanta university in georgia next fall first up please welcome dante ceruti dante decided on clark atlanta because he has family in georgia and he wanted to attend an hbcu that offered his major of criminal justice joining dante clerk atlanta will be cr sierra martin sierra always wanted to move out of state she knew she didn't want to stay in new jersey so she only applied to southern state colleges sierra plans on majoring in business administration and finance with the minor in economics two members of the class of 2022 will be attending howard university in washington dc the first student is amani ellis [Music] amani always wanted to attend howard and she is looking forward to majoring in political science joining amani at howard is makaya queen makaya plans on studying health science at howard university finally we have four students who will be attending morgan state university in baltimore maryland first up we have kenji white kenji plans on studying nursing at morgan state university [Music] also attending is kamora dixon kamore made her decision just by talking to others about college she also plans on studying nursing joining kamora is markai johnson [Music] markhai chose morgan state after considering all of her options and choosing what was best for her she also plans to study nursing and finally we have zanaya jones [Applause] zanaya always wanted to go to morgan state she credits mr balak's human behavior class for inspiring her choice to major in psychology and minor in sociology let's give it up for all the students attending four-year out-of-state hbcus 44 members of the class of 2022 plan on attending community college as part of their next steps after graduation some will pursue two-year associate degrees and enter the workforce while others plan to transfer to four-year colleges to ultimately complete bachelor's degrees here to talk for a few minutes about his experiences and pass along some advice for the senior class is a former graduate of ewing high mercer county community college and the university of delaware please welcome mr angerbrandt [Applause] how we doing this morning um i think i want to start off just by first saying congratulations to all of you no matter what decision that you make no matter what school you go to no matter what you do after you graduate from high school it is a major accomplishment you should all be proud of yourself so give yourselves another round of applause uh so my path i guess as a community college graduate i was an athlete in high school and i was an athlete in high school um so going to community college for me was something that i had to do in order to pursue my dream to go play baseball at another school but i do not regret my decision going to mercer county community college at all it's where you finish [Applause] going to community college is a foundation builder for all of you when it comes to the advantages you have affordability you have smaller class sizes you have flexibility you can save money and ultimately you get a piece of paper at the end of it they don't ask you where you went they ask you how you got there and to be able to go from a community college to a four-year school or even go to community college and then go join the workforce you have that foundation already so continue to pursue your dreams you'll get there work hard and again it's not where you start it's where you finish thank you mr angebrand okay we are now pleased to recognize our students who will be attending community college next year starting with those attending community colleges around the state of new jersey first up fatima and guy fatima isn't entirely sure where she's going to school or what she's going to study just yet it might be pre-med it might be architecture but says it will likely be a community college in new jersey next up we have frankie martinez [Applause] similarly frankie isn't exactly sure where he'll be going to school next year but he does have plans to move out of viewing and ultimately pursue a college education perhaps in pursuit of becoming a veterinarian [Applause] congratulations our next senior is planning to attend camden county college in the fall let's welcome madison woods [Applause] madison is currently undecided about her college major but there's still plenty of time to figure that part out we are now going to move on to the 41 students who will be attending mercer county community college in the fall [Applause] first up jamie allen threadgill jamie is planning on studying communications and perhaps psychology [Applause] next we have ayanna bailey ayanna will be studying psychology to pursue a career as a marriage counselor [Applause] next up please welcome jalen barlow [Applause] there he is jalen plans on studying culinary arts [Applause] [Music] also attending mercer county in the fall will be chris benia [Applause] chris is interested in studying criminal justice and then ultimately transferring to a four-year college [Applause] our next senior is george boyce [Applause] george is interested in studying to become a mecha i'm sorry a mechanical engineer or a technician no george okay no george all right next up we have makai bradford young [Applause] mackay felt like mercer was the best fit for him and he plans on studying criminal justice [Applause] deliberate walk there we go our next senior is imani brown imani is going to mercer for two years to study nursing and then plans to transfer to penn state for a four-year degree and route to becoming an ob gyn okay we still celebrate and now we'll move on next up brianna bruno [Applause] brianna plans to study criminal justice at mercer [Applause] please welcome julia campbell [Applause] julia's current major is undecided but that's okay [Applause] also going to mercer will be jordan casey [Applause] here he comes all right jordan's major is also undecided [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and our next mercer student is joey saccone [Applause] i believe joey's majors undecided i'm going to double check undecided engineering excellent update the major will be aerospace engineering next up we have cassidy clarkston brecco cassidy is planning to be either pre-med or pre-vet and she looks forward to pursuing her dreams no matter where they take her or how long it takes [Applause] next up please welcome kendall crawford [Applause] kendall plans on going to mercer for two years kendall plans in majoring on how to walk up steps just kidding she's gonna major in psychology and then transfer to bowie state okay all right yes please please please be careful on the steps all right next up let's try this again justin espina rodriguez [Applause] justin will be attending mercer next year to study computer hardware engineering [Applause] next up please welcome benjamin fogg safely on stage ben's major is undecided [Applause] next up tyler fowler [Applause] tyler's also undecided on a major [Applause] please welcome ryan gettys [Applause] ryan plans to study computer science before transferring to either tc j or rutgers our next senior attending mercer is marlee skibson [Applause] plans to study marketing to later become a marketing manager [Applause] before we do our next student anaya glover please report to the main office you are headed home okay all right continuing with our string of mercer students ren gonzalez wren plans to study biology right [Music] [Applause] excellent next up michelle grion michelle plans on studying health science because she quote likes science a lot me too me too michelle excellent choice [Applause] next up aaliyah harrison [Applause] aaliyah plans to major in psychology [Applause] there she is right alia wonderful wonderful all right please welcome tyrone hill the third [Applause] tyrone is currently undecided on a major so he figured it made sense to save some money while figuring out before he transferred somewhere else do you not say that accounting oh my goodness tyrone is determined to be an accountant [Applause] okay next up anaya jenkins [Applause] anaya plans to start at mercer before transferring to another college in new jersey and she plans to become an elementary school teacher [Applause] our next student is giovanni johnson jr geo will be studying civil engineering okay we'll move on all right next up we have ashanti jelly [Applause] ashanti's dream is to become a police officer and after mercer she plans on taking the civil service exam keep going all right next up hope kate [Applause] hope plans to go to mercer for two years to get a degree in real estate and entrepreneurship [Applause] ultimately she plans on going to get a masters in psychology [Applause] yeah yeah we'll try this one more time ashanti jolly come on up [Applause] maybe later all right next up kayla kelly [Applause] kayla intends to complete her degree and study to become a dental assistant [Music] [Applause] please welcome to the stage leandra maldonado [Applause] leandra will be studying photography in the fall [Music] okay all right next up is ariana mendoza [Applause] ariana plans on studying nursing or physiology please welcome jayan mims [Applause] jayan plans to study early childhood education and or special education and ultimately transfer to a four year university [Applause] next up alan ordonez chavez [Applause] allen will be pursuing a degree in marketing [Applause] our next senior is laney pacerno [Applause] laney will be pursuing a degree in computer science next up we have marilyn pineda gallardo [Applause] marilyn will be pursuing a degree in nursing there she is [Applause] our next senior is sierra reed [Applause] sierra plans on studying business administration next year [Applause] please welcome to the stage to charlie royez now i believe trish was thinking about joining the navy but i think it's mercer for nursing correct yes yes mercer for nursing [Applause] next up please welcome fernando samaran garcia [Applause] [Music] fernando will be studying fashion design and apparel in the fall [Applause] our next student is carlos santos jr [Applause] carlos plans to study nursing you're welcome you're welcome before we do our next student amelia mcfadden please report to the main office for dismissal amelia mcfadden for dismissal all right we've got four more immersive students left starting with angelina sarmiento [Applause] angelina's current major is undecided next up autumn solely [Applause] autumn plans to study nursing next year [Applause] next is kayla sylvester [Applause] caleb will go to mercer for two years and then transfer to another university to major in psychology [Applause] and last but certainly not least emma trafford [Applause] emma plans to study art at mercer while also spending the next two years plotting her next move let's get one big round of applause for all of our students attending community college next year [Applause] all right for many of our students the path after high school leads directly into the workforce here to give some perspective on his experiences in the workforce prior to becoming a teacher is there a resident expert in all things business related mr pericone [Applause] maybe he's running late he's not here yet too early mr schmiel while we wait on mr pericone do you want to give some wide words of [Applause] a little wisdom a little improv conversation with you today at 2 30.

then the second regular payroll in april was dated april 1 15 and total payroll 440.29 and along with that came the accounts payable of 126 209.68 and then the third payroll for april was dated april 29 2022 for a total payroll of hundred fifty 444 dollars and thirty two cents and for the payroll taxes and retirement one forty one ninety dollars and four cents did anyone have any questions about the payrolls for april okay well we'll just go ahead and move on then to the prepays prepays are dated um april marks yeah april 1 through april 30th 2022 total pre-pays for the month of april hundred fourteen dollars and thirty five cents and the reason that's a little bit higher this month is we had that payment to piney for the um redpath dear metal hvac project that was the payment for that this month and we did that in a pre-pay so we got that paid timely did anyone have any questions about the pre-pays for april nope okay well we'll go ahead and move on to the claims dated today may 23 2022 i can point a couple things out here we um obviously were we were working on buying the student devices new devices for tz we did that we have the total payment in full this month that was actually paid out of one of the gear grants and then the emergency connectivity funds so that was something a bit unusual this month did anyone scan through here and have a question about any of the claims stated today i'll be curious what the comparison of course the school's ending but the fuel expense yes it has gone up not just fuel yeah the fuel has gone up and and of course utilities electric gas yeah unfortunately um the total claims dated today may 23rd is 580 841.35 are we ready to move on to the finance report for the fund report okay all right uh total um and education fund the end of april 2022 2 million 260 054 dollars and 23 cents balance in operations 883 258.76 if you go back to page five you'll see the total for all funds is six million seven hundred forty eight thousand six hundred thirty two dollars and eighty eight cents and next in your package you're gonna see the depository statement you're gonna see the balance in bank two is the first one and the second is for bank nine we've kept a little bit in there okay we want to keep that account open just in case we would have to use it i didn't want to completely close it out yet having questions about that i'd be happy to answer that the operations account you see the balance there and then you had asked about the tcu that um the uh the share plus account that we went ahead and opened up now you're going to see the balance there and it's less seven dollars okay we did have a wire transfer fee we had some other fees i was able to get removed but i could not get that one removed but next month you're going to see that balance go up because we're obviously going to have some interest that's going to show up next month so we're going to see some profit there next month and then you're also going to see the outstanding checks for each bank and then at the bottom you're going to see april 2022 fund balance for all uh bank balances is six million seven hundred forty eight thousand 000 630 288 if you go back to page five of your fund report you'll see that those book balance to the penny and then lastly in your finance packet you'll see the expenditures for bond 2021 for the month of may did anyone have any questions about any of those expenditures this month no okay so july 2021 through april 2022 total expenditures was 3 million 379 343 29 we've got our total expenditures for may so our total expenditures to date out of uh bond 2021 is 3 million 859 984 64.

to order with the pledge of allegiance of america and to the republic for which it nation stands god indivisible with liberty and justice good evening and welcome to the regular may meeting of the greek castle school board first item on the agenda is adjustments to the agenda yep so i don't have any adjustments to the agenda for this month okay next item public comments regarding anything on the agenda tonight are there any comments about agenda items okay here we go next item is recognitions mr gibboni yep so as is customary students of the month we want to start with red path okay so mrs b nominated quentin stidh as student of the month because he has shown so much growth as a kindergarten student he comes to school with a positive attitude and is always wanting to help his peers when they are having a difficult moment in one specific example quentin noticed that a student from another classroom was sad and crying during recess he asked the student to play with him he was able to build a friendship with that student and still continues to play with him during recess each day he is always willing to help others who are hurt or feeling sad and it has been a pleasure to watch quentin grow and learn both in class and with his peers [Applause] there you go okay mr mcqueen it's my pleasure to introduce to you ali salzman ellie is a first grader in laura brentlinger's classroom and mrs brentlinger nominated ellie writing ellie has been such a bright star in my classroom this year her heart is so kind and she's been a huge helper to me with another student who needs a good example she has shown loving caring and selfless behaviors throughout the year and we really appreciate that for kids this age to be caring and selfless is is so notable ellie has worked very hard to improve her reading her writing and her math skills she has been a true gift to our class ellie salzman [Applause] mr welts i'm sorry mrs rhodes and mrs sasebo my apologies so usually mrs rhodes introduces the student of the month but dean and i have a history because okay so as you know i do some of the discipline at school and when dean was a third grader dean had a running place in my office nearly every day in third grade and i would call home to mandy his mother remember and i said mandy one of these days i'm gonna call home with a really good report for you so i called her last week and i said mandy today is the day today i know i'm like no this is really good today so dean was nominated by his teacher mrs fowler who is so proud of him so i'm going to read to you what mrs fowler said are you ready i am so proud of how much dean has grown both academically and behaviorally during his fifth grade year dean comes to school every day and puts forth his best effort during class he asks great questions and thoughtfully contributes to our classroom discussions we affectionately refer to him as our resident fact checker dean has demonstrated good citizenship by being respectful to others and being accountable for his actions his sense of humor has made our class interesting but in a good way it has been a pleasure to have dean coeffer in class this year i look forward to watching him continue to grow and succeed good job [Applause] so hi good evening our green council middle school student was not able to make it tonight but i wanted to recognize claire langdock her teachers have said she is amazing very studious and sweet claire is always polite and prepared she is kind to others and respectful of her teachers she is a hard worker that takes her education seriously she wants to ensure that she is prepared for all assessments and always looks for places to improve if she struggles claire langdon hi our student also had other obligations tonight with some sporting events we have chase carrington he was nominated by mr hankey chase carrington exemplifies a positive mental attitude he's never seen without a smile on his face chase brightens the room with his positivity and encouragement for his fellow students even when faced with difficult challenges i think he had four surgeries this year or frustrating circumstances chase always rises to the occasion with a smile on his face and good-natured comment it was a pleasure to nominate chase carrington for the student star award for attitude [Applause] okay next item on the agenda is approval of the consent agenda which consists of meeting minutes from the special meeting of october 18th and the regular board meeting minutes from april 18th and april 25th the allowance of claims financial report and personnel reports part one and two that are hanging on the door and on the website so this is wrong hello everyone i hope so okay um for the month of april we're gonna look at three payrolls in april your first payroll was dated april 1st and the total payroll for that payroll was 386 seventy 0596.71 you'll see a bit more detail in your reports this month accounts so if we have any questions about that you can let me know and we can we can address those questions but you're just gonna see a lot more detail on these reports along with that april 1st uh 2022 payroll came again retirement and payroll taxes a total of 111 000 128 14.

hear that the audits went well so thank you for all your hard work thank you i have to tell you it was a lot of work and i'm really really glad that we did it because it paid off so and thank you all for your support and and um hanging in there with us while we got things cleaned up we appreciate it a public report will be made available at a later date right okay great thank you very much uh can i get a motion to approve the consent agenda solo second motion a second any discussion ready for the questions hearing none all in favor all right all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is reports and the first being from sister assistant sister superintendent so next month i'll have data for you i'd like to go over the impact of the after school programs and we'll have ilearn and i read and we'll have nice graphs and be able to dive into that and hopefully our county schools will be released too because right now we just have our own score so it'd be nice to see that in line of our peers so as you know the middle school after school program is wrapping up year four of our grant we're closing that out so i'm gonna make sure we look at the impact that that program has had and enable all the families that we were able to serve over the four years um so as we're wrapping that up our elementary program we're just finishing year one so looking at that data too i'm excited to see what results that presents um we will be moving the after school program from elite to tc just because our we're going to be working with a smaller budget through a different grant and so we have a facility rental that we we use with our partnership with with elite um and then we'll be able to scale back on transportation as well so that we'll have some cost savings there um and then we'll still have our partnership with the ymca and they'll be moving back to red path so we're still providing those things as much as we can we're just kind of changing locations we can serve more students um and then mrs ward is here tonight with dory who's celebrating her first birthday so she's going to be here to celebrate with us yes so we have our celebration on friday it's on social media oh yeah okay it's on it's on social media but um the kids loved it we had cupcakes dory had she had her favorite vanilla wafers with some whipped cream on it and so the cupcake the kids made cards and they just had a blast so it was a lot of fun and next year i've already talked to area 30 we're going to partner with their culinary program and they're going to make cookies for the kids next year so but yeah things are going great the putnam county foundation they came they had a couple representatives there um and so they're going to be spotlighting her in their annual report um this summer so that'll be exciting too and they said that if anybody other schools are interested that they would be happy to support other programs in the future so we've had good success with dory yeah she's a good girl she is she girl yeah at home when the vest comes off she gets a little crazy a little puppy in her still but it's good that just makes her normal it does i just want to i just want to say that i love cupcakes and i'm always asking about dory so i'm a little disappointed i didn't get invited to the party hey i sent that invite out so next time next yes next time we'll make sure you get some sponge but yeah do you guys have any questions anything no okay perfect thank you yes thank you thanks for bringing her yes no problem that's all that's it okay next is the superintendent's report mr gibbon yeah so just a couple of brief things this month obviously construction is underway at the high school and is set to ramp up here after we complete graduation um we'll start to start to dig out and excavate in between mac and alley and the high school we've got our temporary entrance in in place and it'll be in place for some time so things are things are moving right along and definitely appreciate the staff and the students the community their patience and cooperation because it's challenging and frustrating as the fence moves and as location moves but it's all going to be worth it in the end and then we're getting ready to kick off we had a kickoff meeting uh getting ready to begin the secure entry work at redpath dear meadow and tz so those are secure entrances that construction will take place this summer along with sealing up the building envelope so finally tackling the humidity moisture issue and just the overall the way the building leaks um there so hopefully we'll realize some savings on our utility bills as well so those things are ongoing and then at the middle school finishing up our focus groups and design for the updated media center science labs and new secure office and entry there as well so we'll be putting those out to bid mid to late june awarding hopefully awarding a bid or not hopefully awarding a bid mid to end of july and then issuing issuing bonds and beginning that process as well so things are very busy but they are they are moving right along and i do think we are in a good position that we sold bonds when we did and we awarded construction contracts when we did because you know even though we're seeing inflation and maybe headed towards a recession i don't think things will ever quite come back down to where they were so we're ahead of the game with that and moving along and then we added to our state state championship academic teams we had two more state titles i don't remember what subject specific those were but we still leave the state in any class or excuse me based on enrollment like we are the tops in indiana so our students and staff members put a lot of hard work into that and uh tennis our girls tennis team are sectional champions and we'll compete at crawfordsville tomorrow night so that's really exciting and then we swept the county championships um we took all five um this spring and so that's another accomplishment so we're really achieving you know on on the athletic fields in the classrooms um and certainly you know in our fine arts as well we had um celebrations and accomplishments there this spring as well so it's just a great way to end the end the school year and just appreciate everyone who helps contribute to that and then obviously you know we'll be kicking off summer school and our stem camp at the middle school summer school at dear meadow the high school summer school program is going to be at the middle school this year so we can vacate the high school but those programs will kind of be upcoming and then one of my favorite times of the year is graduation on friday night and being able to celebrate the students and award them their diplomas so exciting time tomorrow obviously the last student day and then finishing off the following day with uh with the staff day so overall positive into the school year okay thank you next item on the agenda is old business we have no old business so the next item is new business and the first item oh do you want to present all these at once um we can i can just kind of give you a summary of what they are okay if that's helpful the first thing is an approval request for some resolutions yep so the resolution determined so resolution determining a need for a project so what we have to do it's it's required by statute and the board determines that there is a need for the project and the project is to finish off the remaining projects that were previously shared but due to escalating costs we needed to secure some additional financing and funds to complete projects that the public wanted us to wanted us to finish while still maintaining our debt service tax rate and not seeing an increase to the public on that resolution reapproving the building corporation so in order for the building corporation to not for profit corporation to issue the bonds the irs requires that schools approve the building corporation and authorize it to issue tax exempt bonds on behalf of the school district so that's very similar to what we approved once before and then along the same lines is the resolution proving form of an addendum of addendum lease and very similar this is something that's typical with lease financings used by school corporations in order to borrow for renovation and construction and the building is currently subject to a financing lease so what we're doing is we're supplementing that lease and that's the reason for the addendum and so the building corporation will use the bond proceeds to make the needed improvements to the building and therefore the lease rental will be sufficient to pay the principal and interest due to the bond holders and then the final resolution is approving first supplement to master continuing disclosure undertaking undertaking and issuing bonds and this just deals with the securities and exchange commission there's a requirement that the school corporation enters into uh first school corporation enter and first supplement to master continuing disclosure and taking forward issue bonds and we've previously entered and type this type of agreement and so we have to provide timely financial information to the sec's database and provide notice of events so these resolutions are all kind of standard we've passed them before earlier this year earlier this year and so this is just the next step in the legal process of what we have to do we had a building corporation meeting earlier today and went through that went through those steps as well so it'd be my recommendation that the board approve these resolutions as presented i make a motion we approve these resolutions as presented a second okay we have a motion to second to the questions hearing none all in favor all right all opposed motion passes next item is an approval request for an overnight basketball camp to st francis university yup so since it's an overnight trip it requires board approval and the boys basketball team is traveling so they have the proper chaperones and procedures in place and it'd be my recommendation to board approve this request one second okay with motion in a second um all in favor aye all opposed promotion passes next item is an approval request for the second reading of the 2022-2023 building handbooks yeah so again as is customary uh the end of the year the building principles have submitted um the buildings have submitted their updated handbooks for next school year and we've reviewed those and now it's time for the board to approve approve them so that we can send them off to print and have them back in time for next school year to okay they'll make a motion to approve a second okay a motion in a second any questions or discussion okay hearing no in favor aye all opposed motion passes next item is an approval request for the activity bus purchase yeah so earlier this year i don't remember i think it was in the winter we were notified that midwest would be unable to fulfill our school bus purchase activity bus that we had ordered or we had actually had board approved and ordered in the fall obviously we're not very pleased with that and we still have a need for a new activity passenger bus and so um kyle and i worked with curling bus sales and we've secured a some pricing for a activity passenger bus it is going to cost have the exact number here in front of me but it is a few thousand dollars more expensive than the bus that we had approved in the fall but it's still the low bid right now and we do have a need and we have one reserved because the remainder they had a few left over and they're selling out so we submitted a letter of intent and uh obviously we want to move forward with that purchase with board approval tonight it could be my recommendation that the board approved the the updated purchase so they actually have the bus that we can buy yeah they have the bus it's a different vendor it's a different company and to be honest it might be a company that we look to even do more business with moving forward rather than the other vendor nice and i think i misspoke earlier it wasn't midwest it was mcallister that's right they could not fulfill it i make a motion we accept second have a motion in a second all in favor aye all opposed motion passes next item on the agenda is an approval request for the franciscan health sports medicine contract and putnam county hospital sponsorship agreement yeah so earlier this spring we were approached by putnam county hospital with the desire to become basically our health care partner for all of our needs so currently we partner with putnam county for telehealth they've offered a free wellness they offered free wellness screenings for our staff so kind of working working with that and offering resources and things of that nature and then wanting to partner with us to provide athletic training services for student athletes and in doing so by bringing in the franciscan alliance they have an established up and running ethic training service program it's very similar to what we have um right now with hendricks regional um but we think that that both franciscan alliance and putnam county hospital are going to be better better partners um in the long term they're our local hospital um you know currently you know franciscan health provide athletic training services in martin places like martinsville mooresville butler they're going to be providing services to roncalli so it's a very similar type of program but we're actually going to be able to add to the services that we provide in athletic training so rather than having one athletic trainer we're actually going to have two because we can expand our offerings for for our middle school student athletes and also obviously help supplement in the high school so we're adding for that and then putnam county hospital is a part of the sponsorship agreement they're going to make a one-time donation to upgrade some of the equipment in our athletic training room and then they really came forward and with some sponsorship sponsorship agreement dollars to where this isn't going to increase our our cost of our current agreement with hendrix regional so we're getting more sponsorship dollars and we're going to have better coverage for our student athletes so mr mr greenlee mr welts mr rogers and mr rector and basically our team we think that it's best for the long term and we would like to recommend and move forwards with franciscan health and putnam county hospital and then notify hendricks regional of our intent to discontinue at the end of our current contract which is the end of june this agreement is through 2025 right it's a three-year agreement more athletic directors not athletic directors but athletic trainers we're doubling the size of our staff no more cost to us no less cost less cost and we're working locally so yeah sounds good yep okay i get emotional approved so moved okay the motion is second any further questions all in favor paul opposed motion facets next is an approval request for the 2022-2023 textbook rental and student fees yeah so again another customary thing at the end of the year is approved in our textbook rental student fees for the following year um those were submit reviewed and submitted um to central office and now is the time to for the board to approve proof of those items i will i would like to note that if anyone's looking at the device rental charge specifically for tz it'll be significantly less for the next three years um based on a federal grant that um what's up basically four years based on the a grant that corey um worked to secure and so we're able to help defray the cost of that device um to to obviously help or help our families um it is significant i think it went from like i think it's something like 15 a month or something like that i don't have it right in front of me so that's right um so that's a that's a good thing to be able to help our families but they've all been updated and they reflect our course offerings for next year and it's my recommendation that the board approved these fees and rental charges thank you corey yeah thanks corey if we could get you to work on the state to where they're just paid in full that okay can i get a motivation i'll make a motion second okay you have a motion in a second any questions comments hearing none all in favor all right motion passes next item is an approval request of 2022-2023 stepping stone incorporated school psychologist yep so uh mrs solomon isn't recommending that we continue to work with dr ayat for the 22-23 school year she currently works with our staff and we'd like to continue to maintain maintain services we do believe that she might be getting closer to retirement and so we also have plans to potentially look for some assistance to kind of help offset some of those hours because as she's working towards retirement she's wanting to work fewer fewer days but we want to obviously keep her here and she's a valuable employee and just fits in really nicely with our staff so i recommend that the board approve continuing to work with stepping stone inc sounds good to me i'll make a motion we continue working with him second okay we have a motion second in a second all in favor all right opposed motion passes uh next item on the agenda is an approval request for some for the 2023-2024 and 2024 25 payroll schedules yeah so nothing nothing's really changing it's just outlines of payroll cycles for the next two school years maintains our bi-weekly payroll schedule and so it's my recommendation that the board approved these payroll schedules as presented if you kind of backing back tracking a little bit is we want to make sure that we have the correct number of payrolls in a year in a budget year and obviously in a contract year because we actually had to adjust it two years ago my first year here because we had an extra payroll and we can't have 27 pays and a 26 pay calendar year so this helps to project out the long term and make sure that we have the adequate time to make an adjustment if need be so there's no surprises okay quick emotional proof he'll move i'll second give a motion and a second all in favor aye all opposed motion passes next item is an approval request for the 2022-23 employee handbooks for hourly classified salary classified and transportation yep so again another customary item is those handbooks have been updated and reviewed and it's time to approve those for the next school year i'll make a motion to approve second okay we have a motion in a second any questions discussion okay hearing none all in favor all right all opposed motion passes next comes the best part of the evening the second question did the approval request for some donations first of all being the jackets really dalton trust of green castle high school champions together in the amount of mica foss bar mitzvah project to green castle high school boys soccer in the amount of 3 500 the putnam county community foundation red path primary in the amount of 1 000 and depaul university student page price to dear meadow primary the amount of three thousand eighty dollars yeah i make a motion that we accept yeah gladly second okay we have a motion in a second all in favor all opposed motion passes thank you next item on the agenda is the gcse return to in-person instruction plan which is something that does not need board approval correct so as is customary um only requirements from the federal government to all schools as we're receiving esther dollars is we have to allow public comment on our return in person instruction plan every six months and so this just falls in the next six month window it's already you know it's already posted we're not we're not making any changes but we do have to allow the public the opportunity to make public comment on our plan so do we have any public comments on the return to in-person instruction plan okay thank you very much next item on the agenda is other business does anyone have any other business so what is the relationship we have happening with ivy tech are there some classes being offered that's kind of a question sorry yeah so any high school any their ivy tech is offering and i don't think it's necessary even just our local ivy tech they're offering free summer classes to high school seniors maybe even juniors um so that's been publicized and that's been pushed and then um we've had we met with mr rogers jenny and i met with ivy tech and they had expressed an interest in providing opportunities for our students to take some courses on their campus specifically with i think it was psychology and sociology how much we've been pushing all right i know that i've been a proponent of it for when i was in eminence and now when i was here like this campus is really struggling and they're missing out on a big opportunity to get our kids over get them some experience get them an opportunity to take an ivy tech course and you know they transfer out so be it but a lot of times some of our students stay locally and there's good opportunity there and so we have that opportunity worked out and we appreciate that but i also understand that maybe there's going to be another change in leadership as well right so hopefully they'll continue that commitment um to us and look to kind of build built upon in the future so that's kind of what i know right now okay anybody else have anything to discuss another business okay hearing hearing none last item on the agenda is adjournment can i get emotional okay well actually you could just come up backwards and ask a question because there's we don't have comments at the end of the board meeting but if you have something to say you can you can come up and address this afterwards so at the be so at the beginning that so if there were comments for agenda items that's what we that's what we asked for at the beginning all right that's fine no got you yeah okay all right so can i get emotional here a movie second okay with motion and second all in favor all posed motion passes thank you for coming be careful going home you

then the second regular payroll in april was dated april 1 15 and total payroll 440.29 and along with that came the accounts payable of 126 209.68 and then the third payroll for april was dated april 29 2022 for a total payroll of hundred fifty 444 dollars and thirty two cents and for the payroll taxes and retirement one forty one ninety dollars and four cents did anyone have any questions about the payrolls for april okay well we'll just go ahead and move on then to the prepays prepays are dated um april marks yeah april 1 through april 30th 2022 total pre-pays for the month of april hundred fourteen dollars and thirty five cents and the reason that's a little bit higher this month is we had that payment to piney for the um redpath dear metal hvac project that was the payment for that this month and we did that in a pre-pay so we got that paid timely did anyone have any questions about the pre-pays for april nope okay well we'll go ahead and move on to the claims dated today may 23 2022 i can point a couple things out here we um obviously were we were working on buying the student devices new devices for tz we did that we have the total payment in full this month that was actually paid out of one of the gear grants and then the emergency connectivity funds so that was something a bit unusual this month did anyone scan through here and have a question about any of the claims stated today i'll be curious what the comparison of course the school's ending but the fuel expense yes it has gone up not just fuel yeah the fuel has gone up and and of course utilities electric gas yeah unfortunately um the total claims dated today may 23rd is 580 841.35 are we ready to move on to the finance report for the fund report okay all right uh total um and education fund the end of april 2022 2 million 260 054 dollars and 23 cents balance in operations 883 258.76 if you go back to page five you'll see the total for all funds is six million seven hundred forty eight thousand six hundred thirty two dollars and eighty eight cents and next in your package you're gonna see the depository statement you're gonna see the balance in bank two is the first one and the second is for bank nine we've kept a little bit in there okay we want to keep that account open just in case we would have to use it i didn't want to completely close it out yet having questions about that i'd be happy to answer that the operations account you see the balance there and then you had asked about the tcu that um the uh the share plus account that we went ahead and opened up now you're going to see the balance there and it's less seven dollars okay we did have a wire transfer fee we had some other fees i was able to get removed but i could not get that one removed but next month you're going to see that balance go up because we're obviously going to have some interest that's going to show up next month so we're going to see some profit there next month and then you're also going to see the outstanding checks for each bank and then at the bottom you're going to see april 2022 fund balance for all uh bank balances is six million seven hundred forty eight thousand 000 630 288 if you go back to page five of your fund report you'll see that those book balance to the penny and then lastly in your finance packet you'll see the expenditures for bond 2021 for the month of may did anyone have any questions about any of those expenditures this month no okay so july 2021 through april 2022 total expenditures was 3 million 379 343 29 we've got our total expenditures for may so our total expenditures to date out of uh bond 2021 is 3 million 859 984 64.

um that's likes shares um and comments um this is a great sign it really speaks to the ultimate goal of social media engagement interactivity it's a great sign that people are absorbing that new brand you can also see that reach is up significantly from last year we have several posts already in these last few months alone that have reached a thousand people or more when you look at twitter twitter groups things a little differently they don't look at average posts but they accumulate uh interaction and engagement so you can see 1400 likes comments and retweets across posts as of late and this is actually a number we had to keep updating as we were putting together this presentation because um it continues to rise um the piece we're really proud of here is the total impression so we're just shy of 20 000 people that are seeing content on twitter and almost 80 of those people are actually seeing it um you know in the last five months or so so we're really seeing a lot of growth on twitter which is fantastic instagram here again this is the new platform and we want to preface these numbers here just by saying that uh we're looking at 90 days versus several months that's just how the platform looks at analytics so these numbers are a little skewed here we're going to continue to see growth as we leverage audiences on the other two platforms um and we have really no reason to believe that um anything other than uh rises will continue as we've seen so far and again when a new social media account starts for a district we've seen that it can take up to a year um even a little more of vigilant posting to really get to that full potential so we expect that in the coming months it'll get more on track with the other two platforms so there's a question because um all of the posts that we're putting on there uh have the ability to make comments on like watching them yeah we thought that was really important just for that sense of community and engagement i want to hear feedback from everyone and um yeah i think so then i'm going to ask the other half is if there's all of these comments is there someone that reads these comments or like they like yeah we're monitoring all that we monitor your your inbox um as well as comments and overwhelmingly i i don't think i've seen any negative as as you're saying that i'm trying to think back and um everything is overwhelmingly positive at this point and it's not to say in the future that there might be issues that arise and we could look at this at that point but once you're done here then that would have to be someone hopefully we're gonna you're gonna have a long-term arrangement with that right okay [Laughter] 1400 likes or comments i mean if you have a thousand comments that's a lot of that's a lot of reading it is but i think lisa makes a good point one of the things we spoke about before we even began to work in earnest was the idea we could use these platforms to actually engage the public so the idea that we could actually get community members who are positive and have the opportunity to help control some of these conversations also results right yes so we have done this um like social media ambassadors maybe is kind of where you're going like kind of creating something where we have others who we know in the district are already using social media whether it's teachers or students or that and kind of working with them on them making sure that you know they're it's reciprocal right yeah right your head's absolutely in the right place you don't want to let um you know let positive feedback go unacknowledged right exactly exactly and we'll show you next if you want to go it would be great even to align this to like alumni sorry like left the district to even have you know um what do i want to say um not ambassadors but it like influencers right like if we collect ourselves like district influencers that have gone to school here that loved it here that have nothing but really great things like signing those people out and finding those people and getting them to be ambassadors um i think it would be really awesome too whether they went to school here i mean i know that we have a we have a boundary page for alumni that people went to school here in like the 20s and 30s right like there's a huge history in bamboo so if we can even get some of those people need them understand what their experiences were and bad work i think all of that is amazing material to use on social media and that has been if you want to go into we just wanted to show you a couple of uh examples of things that have succeeded so that middle post here is actually what you're referring to um yeah bound for college here so um we can start in the middle there now that we're talking about it but um points of pride is a um it's a huge thing worth sharing on social media just like we would share on the website or pitch to the media there's no reason that we can't repurpose that for social media people really engage highly with that and again just like you said here we've done a couple posts featuring graduates that have been accepted to colleges which is a huge deal and it's certainly worth sharing and people have really responded well to that if you look at the left two here we've also done more campaign approaches so this was earlier in the year we featured and welcomed new staff members to the district um this was really a templated approach where we reached out to those new staff members for some basic information um including a picture of themselves and that was really the most engaging component of this people really like to see the faces of the people interacting with their children every day we know that parents really engaged highly with this with this series there were a lot of shares and you can see across all three of these posts here right we're really working in the brand again we have that hashtag bound to astound um building that brand recognition on here as well and of course the third column here um no worthy news in the district in this case welcoming dr friedman to the to the district certainly worth sharing um and again this is something that we need to remember that social media while it is an engaging tool we can also use it as an interactive and an informative tool and so people who maybe don't look to the website as frequently but are scrolling through social media then can have you know get their news that way because i know sure so if there was anything negative that we you know thought like this is something we would we would immediately you know let dan know um if there was anything that was concerning um i think we have received questions if like through the inbox right on facebook um about massive policies and things like that and we've always just gone to dan it's not just um but like i said we haven't seen any negative comments um at this point and if we did um sometimes the approach is to ignore it if you have to if it's not something you can respond to other times you do have to respond um and if things were to ever really get out of control we might consider shutting down comments or that but i just never experienced that on these platforms um so we could i think yeah um and we should mention we use a service um that so every day we're receiving in our inbox um any news out there about the boundary school district with keywords um as well as we're getting like a report about your social media accounts every day so yeah one key component of that is there is a sentiment feature um in those reports that we're receiving so it's kind of like a way of double checking just to see um if the platform itself misses something you know the monitoring services is there to help as well that's right are we are we set up with our own social pages to push out for advertising like are we open to instagram advertising or is that something that our account doesn't really cover it's it's something we haven't explored um but we certainly could yeah the capability is there if we decided to to go that route yeah the video when we launched that yeah i'm just wondering if we wanted to you know invest a little bit extra into that post and push it out you may get a really good return on it yeah yeah it is a capability we can do with how it's currently set up um as well we have worked on kind of proactive media pitching here so really taking what are those unique programs and unique stories in the district um and sharing them with the news media and so as you can see here um two of the bigger stories that we've been able to place for you one was in new jersey school boards association school leader magazine and that was about the case for in-school mental health services and it's a really nice story about the district's mental health services and how that's kind of a model for other school districts i think it really positioned the district well um in that space and then julia buccini who you saw on our video she's a social worker in the district uh she we worked with her on writing and placing a piece in social work today uh magazine um and then there's also ongoing press releases that were um always distributing to more of your local media like my central jersey patch uh rls media um and those might be fundraisers going on at the school or um i think some of the others like uh teachers and teachers of the year and things like that that we just want to get out into the media so that's been really successful as well and then another key communication tool that we've been working with the district on is the newsletter so when we came on we know there was a newsletter a printed newsletter that was sent to uh aldors and we've since worked on a new newsletter titled updates abound which kind of again plays off of that brand and we really aim to include the most engaging content possible so that so far has been a superintendent's message um budgeting information um and of course those same success stories that we see pitching to the media on the website again repurposing that just to tie the brand in and make it really cohesive so this is just again a great way to engage the community it is bilingual it's released in english and spanish so it's really important as a communication tool to reach as wide of an audience as you can we know you have a significant spanish-speaking population and so we want to make sure that that population is able to engage and interact with you we've done two issues so far starting first in january i believe and [Music] we worked on just kind of communicating in a clear way through various things so um you know clear and transparent communications will sometimes help with writing maybe a letter to the school community or um just you know reading over any communications that are going out so we've helped in other ways with the communications so we look forward to continuing to work together in the future we hope that that is um possible we will you know first step right is launching the website and getting that completed but then we would love to continue working on all these things that we've developed we feel like we've set a really good foundation here with this brand and we just want to keep going with it so we hope that will be the case okay and so i noticed um if you have any other questions i'm happy to keep them yeah yeah thank you so much yesterday [Music] thank you we are now up to committee reports uh i believe we postponed both education and governance for this round um i expecting that we'll be able to reschedule those uh between now and the next meeting but i do know that we have updates on both human resources and operations roger's not here tonight so i'll give the operations one uh michelle do you want to talk a little bit about hr no we haven't met as a committee uh our committee has been focused on negotiations and that's nothing that's moving forward and there's really nothing we can discuss yeah i i the only thing that i would say is maybe since the last time we all met as a group maybe for the best of the other board members we've met with the association twice we've been twice totally now right and we had additional meetings earlier this evening yes i i yes i met with some of the administrators to get some to clarify some information that we discussed at our meeting okay and then the next scheduled meeting with the association is first week in june right so hopefully before the next quarter meeting we'll have another set of updates to present but you know i think in general the sessions have been going really well so far you know everybody's highly engaged the team that's at the table really is passionate about what they're trying to accomplish on both sides so all positives uh there operations we had another meeting earlier this evening with uh our friends from the borough council uh we talked about a variety of different things uh primarily focused on shared services and how we could potentially partner to better effect across both entities but we also got into discussions about our student population as well not only how many students we have in district but how consistent and steady those populations are throughout the tenure uh that they're with us at the school so again i think we're continuing to refine everybody's understanding of the challenges that we face as a district as a community uh how those uh intersect with people of the district in the borough and ultimately i think you know we walked away this time with some tangible action items uh including hopefully the opportunity to plan for um some improvements at the billion or baseball field and to get that restored to a place where we can all be proud of it as a community so generally again i think a very positive discussion any other questions or comments about committees or committee meetings i think we're up to item number four open to the public for agenda items dr gallagher do we have any questions online we do not okay anybody from the room okay on to 5.1 which is approval of than these minutes resolve that the boundary board of education approves the minutes for the following meeting uh regular and executive uh may 9th 2022.