001We're live, right? >> Yeah. We're 7 o'clock. We're good to go. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Mr. Davis here. >> Mrs. Reed here. Mrs. Helma here. Mr. Allen here. >> Mr. Phillips >> here. Miss Juliano >> here, Miss Row >> here, and Miss Oriente >> here. All right. Can I have a motion and a second to approve the action meeting minutes from the August 28th, 2025 meeting? >> Motion. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Opposed or abstain? >> Perfect. No presentations this evening. As we were talking about before the meeting started, the students of the month will start in October because we recognize September. So, we're always a month
002behind. Um, and Mr. Lee, you're up. >> All right. Right to it. Huh? >> Yeah. I mean, no need to discuss the mission statement or the goals or anything, right? >> Oh, never mind. Do you want to talk about them? Yeah. If I didn't know if you want to talk about mission statement or goals, then I'll go to the public comment and then I'll pass it to you. Motion is second to open the meeting to the public for the discussion of agenda items only. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Oppos? XD not at this moment and I have a motion and second then to close the public portion of the meeting >> second all those in favor or abstain all right now you're up >> okay good evening everyone um first two items
003uh under my section here are the safety and security drills for both JFK and DDE they have all been completed for the month of September. Uh item C is all your monthly reports that were uploaded to the portal for your review. Item D, we've had no reports of harassment, intimidation, or bullying so far this school year. That's a good thing. >> Uh item A um is a policy recommendation and then the regulation recommendation for your vote. Um, the state essentially changed the rule saying that students are now allowed to apply their own sunblock. I think this will very rarely happen, but we had to adjust our policy. We and we put some some things in there in the regulation. You know, if they abused the privilege, if they're not able to use it, they can't
004use the aerosol, things of that nature. Um, but that was all shared with with the board prior. Uh, item E2 is to approve our fundraisers for this upcoming month. Uh E3 is to approve a guest speaker coming into the middle school. Uh item number four is for uh volunteers, parent volunteers. Uh item five is a facility usage request. Item six is uh for the board to approve our corrective action plan for our chronic absenteeism. I mentioned this before. Um, we worked the administrative team worked to put the corrective action plan together. I think it's pretty solid plan. Uh, we've already it's it's it's also one of our district goals for the school year. So, everything sort of is tying in. Um it's also a school level goal at both of the schools and we're really
005focusing on uh the numbers and um how to how to get the kids into school more frequently. Um and to some extent uh how to how to change the mindset of um some some of our parents um is interesting some of their responses on the survey were like you know my child misses school twice a month. Well, if they miss school twice a month, that's a lot of dates, right? And so when you add that up, it doesn't seem like a lot each month, but so we we have a lot of work to do there, but I I'm I'm I'm pretty um optimistic that we'll be able to to make a lot of progress throughout the course of the school year. Uh item F1 is five new hires for your approval. F2 is uh two
006resignations. F3 is just a it's a staff renewal, but it's a salary adjustment. her um salary salary was listed uh incorrectly. It was last year's salary on the guy at last at our last meeting. So, this is just an adjustment for that. Uh item F4 is a stipen position for Mr. Fluger. Uh Mr. Fluger, as you know, is our facility supervisor. Um but he also has his license to be able to drive a bus. And so when we get caught in a vine, bus drivers call out, um buses need to be um routes, actual bus routes need to be driven, he fills in. And so we figured since it's not part of his job, it would be right to to compensate him for doing that because it's he's a huge help for us. Uh item
007number uh F4. Oh, I already did F4. That's it. My section's up. Sure. >> All right. So for the superintendent report, can I first have a motion and a second to approve superintendent items XA to XF? >> Motion second. >> Any questions for those >> for just the superintendent reporting? >> Um I did have a question since since we're doing the stipen position for Mr. Fluger. Um have we thought about possibly seeing if like any of the custodians may want to get their CDL to be able to drive or anything like that? I don't know if you've done it in the past, but we haven't. >> Just as a as like a backup. >> Yeah. >> To give them that extra money in their pocket. And you know, >> I know right now I don't
008know that any of them would entertain that because he's really short staffed and they're already getting tons of >> over not overtime, but extra hours because they're covering for >> people that are out right now. So, but maybe in the future definitely something to keep on the radar if they're interested. For sure. Okay. >> Yeah. Thank you. No problem. Any other questions? All right. Um, Miss Allen, >> yes. >> Uh, Mr. Phillips, >> yes. >> Mr. Row, >> yes. >> Mrs. Reed, >> yes. >> Mrs. Helmop, >> yes. >> Miss Juliana, >> yes. >> Mr. Oriente, >> yes. >> And Mr. Davis, >> yes. >> Perfect. >> All right, moving on to business and finance. Um A through D is just the financial report for the month of July 2025. Um no line items have
009been overextended at this point. There are sufficient funds available to meet the obligations for the remainder of the year. Uh the treasurer and the secretary's report are in agreement for the month of July and there's no changes in the anticipated revenue amounts or sources. Um did everyone get through the bills? That's >> still working on it. That's okay. um we can always, you know, approve or or pull anything back. I did review them all, too, so hopefully they're they're good to everyone else's eyes. Um but E is approvement um to pay pay the bills. F is to approve the September 2025 source for teachers listing. Um all the pay rates and bill rates are listed there for review. G is to approve the cafeteria dispersements for the month of September. Um we didn't have any
010for the month of September, so um we're going to move along from that. H is to approve uh the care dispersements for the month of September in the amount of $14,97.75. And then I is to approve some out of district uh tuition contracts. These are currently all budgeted for in our uh 2526 uh budget. J is to approve some travel and professional development for some of our staff members. And then K is just to approve the submission of our um ESA consolidated grant application. This is uh title one, title two, title four, um all of those. So that is going to be approved as soon as we're part of the consortium for title three, which is ESL. Um once Lynenwald submits their portion, because we're all part of that same consortium, uh then I can
011submit mine. That's the only thing kind of holding me up from submitting it right now is is for them to get their piece done so it clears out um my error that those funds need to be budgeted, whatever. So, I need to wait for them to finish. Uh, can I have a motion and a second first uh to approve business and finance items Xia to XIG? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Any questions? >> Uh, Miss Allen. >> Yes. >> U Mr. Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Row. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Reed. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Helma. >> Yes. >> Miss Juliano, >> yes. >> Mr. Oriente, >> yes. >> And Mr. Davis, >> yes. >> Perfect. All right. Um, committee. Oh, any old business? I don't think so. Old business. All right. Um, I don't
012think we have we have new business here. Um, just nothing for negotiations at this point. Although um in the near future we will look to engage with the BTEA because their contract will um end on June 30th, 2026. So we will begin to engage with them to start that next round of negotiations um for that negotiations committee. Um but nothing as of this moment. Finance, we didn't have a meeting because we had um some conflicts with some of our members. So I did just bring the agenda that I had prepared. Um we would have gone over the budget report, the revenue report. Um we do have a new student placement. Um it is going to be a public school placement which um obviously comes in a little less expensive than say um other out of
013district placement. So I'll have that information for you guys. Um later we don't have a price yet on that. Um but it is nice because it is less that there's a public school placement for that student. It was not budgeted for. Um no funding information or concerns at this moment. Although if we continue to have more kids move in that have to go out. that might become a a funding concern. Uh grants, our final reports for prior year grants are due on October 17th. Um as you saw, we are ready to submit the ESA grant in the coming days. Um and then we are going through a federal grant audit. It's um Mr. and I just sat in with this uh federal um employees the other day and I guess every so often a district
014is selected, they're actually only going to check our July 2025 through September 2025 um expenses and records, which is kind of good because we only have expenses in September 2025. So, and ours are very cut and dry. It's like salaries, professional development, um things of that nature. So, I we don't anticipate any issues. Um, but either way, I mean, they're really great to work with. I worked with the federal um, auditors many many years ago when I first started. We had one of these similar done. Um, and they're they're really actually great to work with. So, if there's something wrong, they're not really there to say, "Gotcha." They're more so there to say, "How can we fix it?" And how can we make you fix it moving forward? So, um, I I feel confident with
015that, but we'll keep you posted on that. Um, bills list review, we didn't do that to our finance committee because we didn't have it. Um, and then the ASSA student count is on October 15, 2025. That report is usually due like the first week of December. And then those are the numbers, as you know, that determine our state aid amounts. And then our DRTS, which is our transportation report, is going to be due on uh November 15th. So, um, coming into my busy season. So, but that's it. That was it for finance committee. Um, any questions on any of that? No. um school boards. Um I don't know. I think I brought it up last time if anybody was interested in going to the workshop. I can't remember. Yeah, I know there's always a lot
016of conflicts for people. I can send out I'll send out the dates um to everybody and you guys can let me know after you look at the dates if anybody's interested in in attending. Um and if not, I could just add for individuals. Um Ed Services Commission. No, I haven't heard anything back from them other than I said we're not going to have anybody to to be on the executive board. Um, and she didn't send anything back and I I said, you know, we can have an alternate come to the meetings, but we're just not interested in being on the executive board at this moment. >> Um, so I think we're good there. Uh, Kim Pinehill. >> Yes. So, we had our Pinehill meeting, a lot of the same stuff that we're probably going to
017do tonight because it was earlier in the month. They went over like their first week of school because it was only a week in. Um, we also did the introduction of the new staff members at all the schools. Um, Overbrook seemed to have the most new staff members. I guess there's probably about 10 or 12 at least. Um, then we went over the test results for the NJGPA, the WEDA, and the DM. Um then we also had the the football lights on the field were completed and they had the dedication game as and it was pretty well attended for anybody that was there I would think that >> Yeah. It was it was it was nice. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Um then we homecoming was last weekend which is very very early and all of
018my years of >> it all the years of a kid going to Uber this was probably the earliest and I think even the kids kind of felt that. So, I will definitely be relaying that to Mr. Kula over there because I think they were just like, "Oh my god, we just started school. What do you mean it's homecoming?" You know, >> so um they had the homecoming game on Friday which was also still really nice because it was night. I even I attended that one. Um and then the dance was Saturday. Um let's see. They one of the board members at the meeting asked um if Oberrook would implement the moment of silence for 911. So, they did do that. Um, which is really nice because the kids there, they weren't alive. So, we need
019to make sure everybody still remembers what happened. Um, and the last thing I have here is spirit week is the week of 10:24 and the senior game is 10:24. >> All right. I don't think there was anything for um Camden County School Boards Association. You may see anything either, Adam, right? I haven't seen anything. >> No. Um, >> but I typically don't see much from them early in the year. >> Yeah, you're right. Um, all right. Does anyone else have anything that needs to go under new business? >> I was just curious about something. I know we talked about it in the spring. It's seems like a minor thing, but it is the first thing you see when you pull up the landscaping. I don't know if businesses would donate their time or like because
020I understand Chuck has a lot going on. Um, but I just feel like I can only specifically speak to Eisenhower because I drive by it every single day. The oval part, it just looks really sloppy. Um, even the sidewalk, someone sweeped up the sand, but it's now in like 10 piles on the sidewalk instead of just removing it. Um, and I know again Chuck has a lot going on, but when you see a school, unfortunately, first impressions are what you see. And I just don't know if there's a way because I know that with budget that's tight and everything. So, I don't know the way to solve the problem, but I just feel like we need some kind of clean up a little bit. >> Yeah. I mean, I couldn't agree more. >> And I
021know that we did have Adam did have some talks um with the township about maybe sharing some service, but by the time we had them like budget was already done, it was really late. So, I know that that is something on our radar. >> I would like to try and get that going for next year. Yeah. >> So, that those the grounds >> would we can have some help with that. And that's kind of what um Chenny even said like even if they could just do that entry kind of portion that would be a huge help just for him and he can handle you know our fields and you know in front of the schools but if they could handle like that sidewalk portion and and stuff stuff like that. >> We also have a
022request for proposal out for what we spoke about last year about um having an architect look at those areas in the front of both schools. Okay. to see if they can be designed better to be, you know, better utilized >> and maybe easier to take care of. >> Yeah. >> Um because sand is sand. You're never going to be able to put anything else there. Um and the the trees, you know, is just constant maintenance with that. >> Um so we are we're looking into options. >> Okay. I was just >> Yep. No, I I from day one I've shared your concern. >> Yeah. Like so I I walk my dog by there every day. So when I see it, I'm like I just feel like and I know the soil is sand. I have
023the same soil. I know it's horrible and difficult to grow. So, I agree. >> That's why I would like to do something with those spaces. >> There's something different. Less maintenance. >> Less maintenance. Um and and maybe even add some additional parking and like make the or make the bus loop bigger. What? Something that's going to help with that, you know, kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. >> The trash everywhere is concerning to me, too. Like, >> you know, we're we're right next to Wawa and every time I walk to either school, I'm picking up trash along the way. Um, and it just feels like it ne it never stops. Like I pick it up and the next day there's just there's Waw Wa cups and trash there. So that's something that
024I'm trying to address as well. >> Could they get the kids? >> I was just going to say all for like a volunteer club. >> Maybe talk to peace and see if we can get something like a parent, you know? >> Yeah. >> Bring your kids and volunteer and like have a clean up >> or even like and have student government there and honor society. They all need to get like they all need to get hours. Yeah, they all need to get hours. >> Yeah. Know, >> put these kids to work. >> We built a whole wooden playground. >> I feel like they take pride in it because I was in the GT program here and we used to go outside and plant. They're all gone now. But there was like a whole garden of
025plants out there and like we did all that stuff and you took more pride in your school and I feel like since we have through 8th grade like this, the older kids could handle helping to do that kind of thing. >> Yeah. >> Sure. They love taking a couple minutes to get out of class and go outside and be hands-on with that stuff. So >> maybe even ask, we have a lot of landscaping companies in town, too. >> Yeah, I was thinking too ask them to donate a couple plants that don't need a lot of maintenance things that, you know, maybe we'll flower in the spring and, you know, bring some color. >> Yeah. >> Because there's a lot of a lot of plants like that that you don't have to do a lot of
026maintenance to. >> Okay. Anything else? >> Thank you. >> Um, super quick, I just wanted to add, um, if anyone's going to the workshop Kart is hosting, I don't know if you guys all got an email. Yeah. >> Uh, the the Tuesday evening, Kart will host a cocktail hour event again um, like we did last year. So, if anyone's attending um, we'll make sure the message gets out, but we would love to see. >> Yeah, if they send it to me, I can I always send it back to them. We just got it today. Perfect. >> Um, so I'm sure they'll send it out >> soon, but I'll make a note. >> Yep. >> Anything else? >> All right. Um, at this moment then, we'll do a motion, a second to open the meeting to
027the public for the discussion of agenda items or or non-aggenda items. Anything? >> Second. >> All those in favor? I opposed. >> Still hearing. Uh, can I have a motion then and a second to close the public portion of the meeting? >> Motion. >> Second. >> All those in favor? >> Opposite. Um, at this point we are going to have an executive session. Um, we will not be having any action within that executive session. Um, so they're free to go. Have a good night. >> Good night. I'm gonna have Jacob um turn off our live feed. [Music] >> Oh, don't for a long week. >> Amen. >> It's been a long week. [Music] went back to school night last night. >> Oh, here. >> Okay. >> Because it's like beginning, >> right? >> I forgot
028to mention this, but is there any way next year we can correspond a little better with Overbrook on their back to school night? It was the same night as one of yours. Was it wrong? you know. >> All right, you guys should be all good now. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> No problem. >> All right, everyone. >> All right, so since we came out of executive, we don't have any um action to be taken. So, at this point, we can adjourn the meeting for the evening. Can I have a motion? A second to adjourn the meeting. >> Motion. trying to get ahead of it. >> Brian's in a rush. >> I'm not actually. >> 40. All those in favor? >> Opposing. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> I signed a lot of different
029right now. I literally