001Okay. Uh, good evening everybody. I'd like to call to order uh for the meeting of the board of education June 25th, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. in the boardroom of the administration building at 70 Connor Road, Colnneack, New Jersey. Uh, M. Mr. Morasa, can I get a roll call? Here. here. Mr. Walsh here. You have a quorum. Great. Thank you. Uh pursuant to the open public meetings app chapter 231. This meeting has been duly advertised in the Asbury Park Press in a schedule of meetings dated January 16, 2025, March 4th, 2025, and May 27th, 2025. notice of which has been filed with the deputy clerk for Coloss Township and the requirements of posting of notices have been met. If everybody can please rise for the flag salute. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United
002States of America and to the republic for its one indivisibley and justice for all. Okay. Um, I'd like to see if someone could uh read the mission statement uh for me. Everybody ready? Mr. Ramirez, would you like to do it? Thank you. The mission of the Colts Neck Township Schools is to empower and inspire students to be confident, creative, self-sufficient learners who maximize their strengths and talents and contribute as responsible participants in their everexpanding world. Great. Uh thank you, Mrs. Ramirez. Um okay. Uh I want to u make a motion to approve the minutes uh from May 7th and May 21st. If I could have uh a motion. Second. Okay. And uh if I could get a roll call. Anybody have any questions? I'm sorry. Or comments about the minutes. Okay. Thank you. On approval
003of the minutes, Mrs. Cameron. Yes. Mr. Ro. Yes. Mrs. Ramirez. I have to abstain from the May 7th meeting minutes as I was not present. Um but yes to the May 21st meeting minutes. Thank you, Mr. Ran. Yes, Mr. Scales. Yes, Mrs. Walty. Yes, Mr. Walsh. Yes. Motion carry. Great. Thank you. Uh, if everybody can take note, we have uh four communications there. Um, I always want to um show my appreciation. Everybody uh who contacts us uh to know that we take your communications seriously and uh we will continue to do so. So, thank you for that. Um, I'd like to go right into my president's report at this time. Okay. Uh, good evening everybody. I'm excited to report. Uh, the district website will go live tomorrow. Uh, we're very excited about that. Uh, June
00426th. Mr. Capaso has been working uh, hard to make sure everything uh, is perfect for its launching. So, we're uh, we're looking forward to getting some great feedback on that. and I'm sure you'll be touching uh based on on your report too. Uh I'm also proud to report that our Conover Road Elementary School is ranked number 10 out of all the schools in Mammoth County uh and number five in all the elementary schools in Mammoth County. So I'm certainly proud to hear that. That's just a just a fantastic report for us and I'm sure you're going to be touching base with that too. Um I want to I wanted to extend a heartfelt thank you to all the teachers and staff who help achieve this goal and also um most importantly for our students who
005always continue to do their very best. So thank you to everybody for that. Uh a few weeks ago I had met uh two of our student uh board student liaison Kira Hurlin and Sophia Bucher uh along with Dr. Rigby and Dr. Garbe. Uh we met with uh the reps from our food service provider Ponian um and our liaison had some great ideas on menu options and food portions. Uh they will be drafting a survey with the help of Dr. Riby to include feedback from all students. Uh this will be done in September at the beginning of next year obviously since we're out for the summer. This feedback will help shape our menu and shed lights on students favorite lunches uh um favorite lunches and make them frequently available. Uh our student uh liaison have graduated
006three of them. So we will move forward with adding new student liaison for the upcoming year. our student liaison. Uh just to speak off the cuff on that, um since three of them graduated, I know the last part of uh the last quarter of the year has been uh relatively busy and we were not able to really get the kids um involved as much. Uh Dr. Riby had a full plate, I had a full plate. So starting in September when we get the new additions, uh we're going to uh revisit the liaison program and get back on track with uh some new ideas for them. Uh once again, I appreciate all the kids that participate in that program. Uh moving on, I attended the graduation uh of Cedar Drive Middle School last Wednesday. Um Mr.
007Scarper was there, Mrs. Camera, and Mr. Walsh. We all attended. It was a lovely ceremony. Uh it was a proud moment for me. I was there. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm looking around. Mr. Rugetta, I apologize. Yes. Um it was a proud moment uh to be able to uh address our graduates and to remind our students of their journey over the years in the Coldneck School District. We are so proud of all their achievements and wish them well as they embark on their new educational journey in their high schools. Uh lastly, I want to wish all the students, parents, and staff and administration a fantastic summer. Uh I know it's been a hot couple of days, so I hope everybody is staying hydrated and uh we're looking forward to a great summer and
008seeing everybody in the in September. Uh so that concludes my report. So uh I'd like to just move forward right into the board liaison reports. I know Mrs. Harwitz is not here. I'm not sure if she reported anything to you. Okay. So we're just going to skip over that. Also, the PTO, I don't believe anything um has been going on recently with the PTO as well being at uh being it's at the end of the year. Moving on to the Cold Township school newsletter. I'm sure Mrs. Cameron has a lot to report. Um not really a lot, but just that the summer edition was sent out today to families around quarter to 5. So, please check your email. It's very lengthy because there was just so much in the end of the year to celebrate.
009So that's all. Great, Miss Cameron. Yep. I I got a a hard copy right here. I just want to let you know, I've said this in prior meetings. This definitely is time consuming and lengthly lengthy to make sure that everything is correct, all this information is correct. And I just want to thank you for always highlighting the best sides of our district, including our board members. I I I know it takes a lot to do this. So, we appreciate all the great highlights. If anybody wants to take one at the end of the meeting, you're more than welcome to. And like she says, it is online, but the hard copy is just so much better to see. Um, you know, she highlighted all these children's all these great achievements. Um, honor role, music awards, uh,
010also the play awards. Uh, we honored Mr. Walsh. Uh, you know, thank you so much for all your service to the community and for Yeah. Yes. And uh you know for being a great board member and a great husband. So thank you Mr. Walsh. Um yeah he's not in the dark house today. Um and uh like I said thank you very much Phyllis. This is fantastic addition. So thank you very much. Um okay moving on uh to Mr. Ragneta with the Colts Township Arts and Special uh extracurricular activities. Uh thank you. Just one thing to report. We're going into the quiet season right now with that. Uh but uh there's a a Cougar uh basketball camp that's coming up at the Colnake High School. Uh they're accepting boys and girls ages 7 through 15. Uh
011it'll take place on June 30th to July 3rd. So it's coming right up next week uh from 9:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the uh fee is $190. And please go to coexportsfoundation uh.com for more information. Thank you. Great. Uh thank you Mr. Regretta. Um moving back uh to Mrs. Camera Brian's absence. So, if you can um report out on the township committee. Sure. At the June 11th meeting, a resolution was passed endorsing the fourth round housing element and fair share plan and authorizing and directing submission of the plan to the affordable housing dispute resolution program. Um the township committee meeting is scheduled for tonight um same night tonight, June 25th at 700 p.m. um at town hall. So, usually we try to make sure it doesn't overlap with our board of education meetings. However,
012last Wednesday, as um Mrs. Vulpi reported in her president's report, we had Cedar Drive's middle school graduation. And um I'd like to acknowledge and thank township committee members Dan Busetta, Sue Fitzpatrick, and Mike Biola for attending the ceremony, as well as board of education members Angelique Vulpi, Vinnie Ragnetta, Brian Scarpa, Kevin Walsh, and myself. Great. Uh, thank you, Mrs. Camera. Moving on to the ad hoc committee for affordable housing. Um, Mr. Scales, we can um can lump in this and the board COA subcommittee as well. Um, okay. Usually kind of what the last couple weeks and meetings have been for the ad hoc committee has been our work on the COA subcommittee. Um, this is Miss Cameron had presented. um the town passed um the fourth round presentation. So we we're not sure when the
013next meeting will be. So I think um going forward we could probably put the COA subcommittee last in this until we get more direction on when there's going to be some more subcommittee meetings. Um really the the goal for those meetings going forward now is to make sure that the plan that was passed once the state gets back to everyone then we'll see what the next sort of phase is to actually implement and making sure the directives that we had asked for in that plan are actually executed. So I'll have a plan um once I actually talk to uh Mr. to on that and then ad hoc committee we will then we'll continue to do our work based off of what is finally approved by the state. So we've made some updates on the website
014so you can see the second version of what our numbers will be from a tax revenue perspective and then the updated version of what we think the student impact will be to the district based off of the state's approval of this final round four. So all of that information is available for the public now and we've got sort of what we can call finalized numbers and now a really really accurate target. So since our first work that we started in January up until now there's been two reiterations of it and now this is the most accurate that I think it'll wind up being. So kudos to everyone involved and thanks to the town um for allowing us to be on that subcommittee because we were able to to provide a voice and our voice was
015heard. Okay. Yes. Oh, good. The so keep them in their decision making. We have to see um the study that I mean I don't want to I don't want to waste more Right? Because the study that was made was pretty concrete. But our the whole point of this, right, was to make sure that there's an alternative viewpoint, an alternative position on it, so the public can see what sort of the we'll call it the scientist and the engineers would see and then what would the general public and the board members see. So there's a difference between the two. So now we have to figure out what what we want to do as a board and we've got a reported last time and as Mr. Mr. Bazetta said to us during the meeting. The town has
016agreed to do another study. So, it's when we want it um is I I think is going to be our next phase. I just don't I just don't know. If they they say they're going to do it, then, you know, hopefully they'll foot the bill for it. So, we'll see. It's a conversation we need to have. Um but yeah, I like your point. The having the numbers not on the actual report was was due to obviously the alternative position of the state. So, we don't have anything on record that's official so that if there are any attorneys on the other side and there's litigation involved that they can use it, but we've made it available for the public on the board's websites to see. So, I think that's I think our contribution as a board
017of education to the ad and the planning board was was uh very meaningful and really took notice of the impact on future student enrollment and the tax impact on our town. So that was the missing piece and Rob, you did a lot of work. Thanks again for the problem. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, Mr. SK and I just wanted to based on the conversations we kind of had preliminarily at the last cow meeting. I just want to confirm we're holding right now with regard to the the board updating its demographic study right now. Is that correct? Correct. Yeah, we're going to see Okay. Again, the town I mean I it's an olive branch I would say right from the town. So, if we can get them to pay for it, we can expect our first
018students in 2026, 2027. That's right around. That's the one thing that I mean, I live right near it and I drive by it every day and it's almost up. So, I'm I'm concerned it's going to be earlier than we anticipate, but what I was originally thinking and what the original plans were were for only a few of the buildings to be built, wait for demand, and then build like the the two room apartments, the three room apartments, but everything that's there now, and I've toured the facility. Everything that's there now, there's majority is one bedroom. So, that's what we're okay with. But the study that we have is very accurate. So, if anything changes, I don't think they're going to be able to do we know pre-signed rentals. Okay. Don't know. That'll be that's it's
019a good thing for ask this gentleman to my Yep. So, The township handles all the affordable housing. The affordable housing aspect of the rentals. They range anywhere from $800 a month to very very low income all the way up to about 1,900 even like I think reaching like 2,2100 for the upper affordable housing. Now, I know a majority of them may be onebedrooms, but as a real estate agent, I have showed units like this to low-inccome affordable families. And to be honest with you, even as if it's a one-bedroom, there could be up to, you know, five, six, seven people living in there. Does the town have an ordinance for how many occupy a certain unit? Maybe, but the town has a third party that has taken over the responsibilities of vetting the affordable housing.
020Um, so the town may have ordinances, the third party may not, and even if they do, you know, people can get people can get by that. So, if you have a onebedroom, there may be like, you know, a couple that are living there, but they could be living there with three, four, five, six, seven other kids. Now, that that might not be allowed by the township or the county or the state or the federal government, but it happens. It happens and I have seen it firsthand as a real estate broker. I think we want to be mindful about not fear-mongering. You know, as a board, we want to make sure that we're stating the facts to the public, right? That's why the public, I think we've heard it before. Public comment comes in and they
021say, "We appreciate the back and forth and the facts that we present to the the public." So, if I could just put that disclosure out there, I think that that could potentially um again worry people when there aren't facts, if no one's even living there yet, I think to make that statement. And my understanding is that that's very illegal. And if that's the case, then things need to be reported to the proper authorities. So yes, can things happen? Of course. Um, but there are standards in place. So a one-bedroom should not be having more than two people living in it. A two-bedroom should not be having I don't know if it's four or whatever the numbers are, but there are actual legal numbers for how many people are supposed to be living there. So, and
022again, if there is more than that, then that should be reported. Um, so Okay. and and you're 100% correct. However, who in the state of New Jersey is going to report a minority family to a to to the township, to authorities, to this, to that, and who is going to kick that minority family, lowincome minority family, might I add, out of the housing there with children? The the answer is nobody. So I think we crossed that bridge when we got there. I think right now it's important for us to be stating facts. Sure. I I have lived through it for the past 20 years. And I had I have represented low-income families in these situations. And all I'm saying is is that it it happens. and I've showed low-income units, middle inome units, affordable income
023units, and that is what as a real estate broker I have witnessed. So, it's I'm not fear-mongering. I am not I'm just stating an observation as a real estate broker of what I have witnessed, an alternative viewpoint, right? So, that's good. So we've got, so think about it now with those comments, right? Could happen. Um, and now we've got sort of the first study was really the all the algorithms and engineers and all that good stuff, right? So that's sort of the low estimate. Ours is the high estimate, but using the grand, right? That main formula was let's let's look at like a real world scenario, the grand, right? We took the grand and we said, "All right, they originally thought it was going to be 15 kids at in 2025 with the forecast. Right
024now, it's 48." Right. So then we now we know and we could leave it to the public to decide sort of the par between the two. But to your point, we probably should start to start to at least maybe try to contact the facility and just ask them like, "Hey, what's the what's the the occupancy so far?" Just so we have a better idea. And in that scenario, 48 divided by 15, that's 3.2, that's 320% more of what than what was anticipated. That's right. And that's why that's why spending more money on the like the same study, it's like h maybe it'll go up a little bit because then we could at least push and say, hey, look at the grand now. Now you've got real results between 1991 when the original study was done
025and 2025. But again, see what the I'll bring it back to the town and then see where their stance is. Again, they've they've asked to do it. Um and then we can say sure. That's all I'd like to add to the comments. I appreciate all of uh all three of your comments. uh not to bring Howell Township uh into this, but I have uh a few rentals in Howell Township and this past year um all the rental landlord laws have changed uh because there are people um overcrowding units. It is happening and my units have been um inspected three times over the past month. Um the rates have all been, you know, raised. I pay 250 now. And every year it used to be like one rental. One rental would come in. I would lease
026it to whoever, you know, one right now I have a lady and a 20-year-old living there. Now every year they're coming in whether she's a four-year lease or not, and they have to check the rental. So, uh, because there are, you know, whether it's illegals, I don't want to point focus just on illegals, but it happens with anybody that people, you know, my unit, I'm only allowed to have three people in it. So, in Howell, there has been a lot of illegal activity going on in the housing market. Uh, and I'm hoping that our um township committee um follows suit. I hate paying all these extra fees and inspections. I'm getting killed left and right. But what's fair is I have to pay. Yeah. The landlord has to pay for those. I I pay for
027everything and they every single thing they come in every single year and they make up more things I have to pass. Meanwhile, I've had these units for over 20 years and now they're just cracking down and it's all because of the illegal um issues with housing, too many people in there. So, and I do agree with you, Jess, we don't want to fearmonger, but it's happening to me firsthand in Howell and I'm getting killed left and right. So, I'm assuming it could happen in Colts snack. So, if you want to raise that at the affordable housing meeting, Mr. Walsh, just let them know Howell is really cracking down. All the laws went into place January of 2025 with the new fines and everything. And it most likely will. And one of the biggest issues is
028is that the tenants have way more rights than the landlords do in this state. Yes. They they So, the landlords are beholden to the tenants. The tenants know this. So they take complete advantage of the system and good luck trying to kick out an affordable housing family once they are in a unit. Whether it's a one-bedroom, a loft, two-bedroom, threebedroom, fourbedroom, it does not matter. Well, these units that I deal with, they're not affordable housing. What's happening in How regular people renting their homes is not even affordable housing. Now we're not even talking about that and they're doing it. So I could just imagine affordable housing what's going on. So the tenants rights with affordable housing is above and beyond the landlords and the regular units that are out there. The tenants still have it
029over on the landlords. Not as much as the affordable housing, but that leaves something to say. Well, like I said, uh Mr. Scales and Mr. Walsh, if you can, you know, touch base and see, you know, moving forward how they're going to address those issues. Keep pushing. Y keep leading it. We'll see. Thank you. All right. Thank you all. Moving on. We're gonna think that Dr. Garrett that the school wouldn't keep track of that. Like if um if they have three kids in a one-bedroom apartment coming to the school, the school wouldn't keep track of that or and alert whatever authorities they would have to alert. They don't school doesn't do that. Correct. Or do they? The school is a mandatory reporting. I mean there's we but for something with housing with regard to that
030unless it alleged or there were some kind of incident of you know that would uh mandate reporting of some type of of um incident involving a children then the answer is no. Thank you. All right. Uh great. Moving on to uh the Colts Township seniors. Mr. Walsh. Okay. July 10th, our seniors are going on a river uh cruise in Bel River Queen. July 30th, Steel Magnolia's play at Bell Works, a little pizza party. September 16th is an intrepid museum tour, New York City. And October 6th through the 8th, the seniors are going on an overnight trip to Pennsylvania. They had their meetings the first Wednesday of every month at the Colon. Everybody's invited 55 and over. Did you um find out if I can um attend? I know I saw Frank. What's that? Oh, okay.
031All right. Thank you for that heads up. Um okay. Um moving on. Mrs. Ramirez, if you could touch uh base with the Naval Weapons Station early. Nothing new to report. Um as we stated last meeting, and for anyone who didn't hear, um there are some things that are in the works. Um, so when we have more details about some of those projects, we'll be sure to report out. Great. Thank you very much. Um, okay. Lastly, the Dayton County School Boards. Uh, I have, uh, quite a bit. Uh, June 25th. Okay. Uh, the Spring Law Firm is coming up June 26. It'll be at 8:30 in the Double Tree Hilton in Monroe Township. Excuse me. The, uh, fee is $299. Um, we also have the last chance to nominate a school board member. I had covered
032this at the last meeting. Um, it's a last chance uh to nominate uh a school board member for the 2526 school year. Uh, July 1st at 4:30 is the deadline. The winner will will be announced at the New Jersey School Board Workshop in October in Atlantic City. Uh, the nominees, which we covered here, must have five consecutive years of service and hold the NJ school board association certificate board member designation. Uh, moving on, uh, the New Jersey school boards will start a 4-day work week beginning Friday, June 27th, and run through August 29th. So, uh, their offices, uh, will be closed on Friday, just in case if anybody has to contact them for any information. Um, Atlantic uh, city, the workshop, the early bird special is ending June 30th, the special early bird registration. Um,
033so if anybody uh is interested, I think we received a email from Mrs. Simone reminding us and Deo, I'm sorry. Yes. So, thank uh you know, extend our uh thank you for reminding us to do that. Uh is anybody planning to go from here? Okay. All right. Uh the final call to nominate your district's superhero for the New Jersey School Board Association's Unsung Superheroes and Education Awards. Nominations are due June 30th. Uh this is great. It's these are nominations um you know for a staff member that does not get recognition you know normally like not not a teacher or administration but instead like bus drivers, food service workers, nurses, police security. Uh so if anybody would like to nominate one of those folks that would be nice. Uh the winners would also be recognized at
034the New Jersey schoolboard conference in Atlantic City. Um lastly, I just want to thank our New Jersey school board represent representative Tim Thihan. Um he's been working with Mrs. Ramirez. Um you know, helping us with our uh superintendent evaluation. Uh he was supplying us with instructional videos on the evaluation process and uh Jessica and Mr. uh TM were sure to make sure they shared anything and make sure that we're aware of how the system runs and how to get it completed. So, thank you both for working with us uh to finish that. And that concludes that report. All right, moving on. I'd like to have uh the superintendent's report, Mary Jane. Thank you. Um I a lot was covered. We've gone through a lot. So I know that I don't want to be repetitive but
035I just want to thank everyone um with regard to this uh staff, students, administration, families, parents uh for the close of the 2425 school year. Most importantly, I want to thank uh our students, right? 181 days is a long time, especially for kids, for kiddos. And kids don't start in the same place that they finish and the growth and support and everything that they go through on a daily basis. Um you know, everyone sitting at this day is is a part of that. You know, the conversations that go on at home and things like that. And so um thank everyone um our teachers, students, uh staff, board of education members and parents especially as well for you know mornings in winter are cold and dark. You know there's appointment and and running around it's not
036easy and uh we just want to thank everyone for a very successful and supportive year and looking forward. Um I did Mrs. Vulpi um mentioned the hot the highlight of Connor Road Elementary School and I want to congratulate Mr. Osman um you know Mrs. Milana the teachers there's the staff the students Dr. Reynolds, everyone who has worked so hard to really focus in on datadriven decision um curriculum design, tweaking resources, all of the things that are supported um to really hone in on independent student growth because that that small group instruction, what we're doing to monitor student pro progress is being is demonstrating success in our students. And that's the most important thing. That's what we want. It's systemic, right? It's it takes time to make that those changes, but it's um good and we're
037super really really really really proud of them. So, congratulations to that. Um and the middle school being next, right, for getting there with it. That's the other part of it as well. So, uh excited to see what's yet to come, but just thanking everyone um for all their hard work. It makes um as if just to give me another reason to be proud of what we do here. Um, I also want to just uh, you know, uh, commemorate and just really celebrate the Cedar Drive middle school uh, graduation. The students speakers were phenomenal. I think it's a very unique approach that we take to our graduation to have students speak at at even the eighth grade level and introduce them and that opportunity to be impress and they were so eloquent and so wellspoken. It
038was really so impressive. So, just thanking everyone for that. Um I just want to point out on this evening's agenda there are 10 action items and some of them one of which is the um comprehensive equity plan uh which is a requirement uh by the state department of education. I want to thank Dr. back and the members of that team uh who go through that process on a on a semianual but required three-year process um to be able to go through all of the board's policies practices that we have here to ensure that we are in compliance with state mandates regarding our comprehensive equity plan. So uh kudos and thanks to everyone uh for all of their input in that. Um, and then I also have the violence, vandalism, and HIV report, which is attachment
039S2, uh, underneath our action items, which is the first half of this school year. So, if you think of it in terms of that, we're always six months behind reporting when things are closed out. you know the things that are in the information items every uh agenda those are monitored tracked and so we'll have this year uh uh in next year about December we will report on the prior six months about that time when we go forward so we're always six month uh back reporting um and that concludes my superintendent report great excellent wait I'm sorry I lied for a second um I also wanted to just uh point out we have Kathy Jazinski one of our instructional assistants who we are accepting a retirement for. She's been an instructional assistant in our district for
04010.5 years and we want to congratulate her on her retirement and wish her nothing but the health and happiness in her retirement on behalf of the district. She's been an invaluable uh asset to the students here and we're going to miss her. So congratulations to Mrs. Dzinski. That now great all wonderful things. Yeah, great. Um, okay. Moving on. I'd like to take note of the three information items listed there. Uh, one, two, three. Okay. Once everybody uh, looks at that, we're going to go right into our comments from the public. If anybody would like to come up today and uh, share a thought or a question, you're welcome to do so. Just state your name and address for the record. Sure. Yeah. Welcome back. Just uh hold it down for like two seconds, Lisa 73
041Mercer Road. Um in regards to the affordable housing, I've been attending most of the town meetings and the affordable housing planning meetings which just happened recently. So the last thing that we were told this woman her name is Beth I don't know her last name she come yes she comes down from the state she's the person who um speaks about the affordable housing and exactly what we have to do um and she gives the entire presentation. So for round four something different happened. I don't know I didn't I'm not on the same page with you guys. We submitted something called an adjustable duration. Yes. So, and something just passed for the state of New Jersey that we don't have to do the same thing that we've been doing with affordable housing, which is submitting the
042plan anymore. Do you know of that? It just changed, which is really good. And they're promising us, our town is promising us that the next round. We're not going to put a shovel in the ground. They're really promising us and um you know with the voting and new people hopefully coming onto the board, they'll be fighting for the residents of Colts Neck. Yeah, I'm not I'm not too you know, I appreciate the feedback you received, but um with the way the Mount Laura law is in place right now, there's really hardly anything no matter what people say is going to basically stop that in my opinion. Um you know, I'm prepared to get more thrown our way. Um hopefully it you know hopefully well the thing with colts neck they talked about it in such
043detail because and they compared it to deal because a deal is not they don't have to do anything with affordable housing because we do not have um we do not have good water here. It's all really based. Forget about the traffic and how many children are going to come to the school, but our water they're putting something in because they were not able to get the water from freehold. Um they ruled against it. So they're putting in this aquifer that they've never used before. Basically, it's like experimental. So they don't know what's going to happen. And if we have a backup because all of our drinking water comes from swimming river and all of our wells will be poisoned if something happens. We don't know what's going to happen. Uh that I think that's the
044biggest problem of it all is our water. So that's what the durational adjustment is all about because we don't have sufficient land to build on and water. So I just wanted to say that. Great. Thank you for letting us know. I can shed light on it. But so round four it's it's 101 units is what they submitted and the durational adjustment what it means is like to exactly what you said we cult has been deemed we don't have developable land because of sewer and water. So that's what the durational adjustment is. We've satisfied round three. So Lana was round three. So round four is 101 units. But to your point, what Coltsack has has, you know, I won't say banked on for years and years and years is we just don't have the water and
045sewer to do it. But we have a $2 million bond. So what we had to put up was a $2 million bond. So the courts got angry and said, "You've been delaying, delaying, delaying." So this $2 million bond now sits and that's there. And if a developer comes in and we don't follow the rules like submitting the like you said, but it just got changed. So that's why we did submit around for the developer can then go in and use and the town gives them that $2 million to develop for sewer and water. So if you think about all the properties on the outskirts of town, those are sort of the targets that you have to look for and then that's it. So those are the only ones that can technically be developed, but we've
046got the durational adjustment. So we've satisfied for now. So like you said 10 years we're okay. They can and we may be obligated to build units under ground four. So never say never. Great. Thank you. Anybody else like to get up and share comments, questions or No. All right. Let's uh close public comment. We'll move right into the action items. Um if I can get a motion to move uh the first bunch of action items one through four. Oh, I'm sorry. Hold on one second. I did have it. Yeah. One to one through 10. Motion. Second. Great. Anybody have any questions or comments on those? Just one question. Uh number five. Number five. school year out of district placements. So I I'm familiar with the other other um institutions what they're for, but for something
047like How at 43,000 and Milstone at 34,000, is that is that the same type of placement that these other schools are or is that alternative placement for those public school districts? So if you so if you'll see that there's two public schools on there. The first one is a public school, right? And that means that they have a program established um that is suitable for a student placement. Um and that's where that's where that comes in. So it's so similar to the other it is similar. It's program based. I thought they were charging us. No, it's uh it's it's program based. Well, in essence, that is the tuition fee. So for that but it's for correct alternative educate that's correct correct questions education and support other districts send their students to our Yes we do
048have yes similar we see on this sheet yes um not to I mean these are individual right because they're associated with the student number they're individual placements that could would send their students to our township correct when we take a non-resident um you know student with disability contract tuition contract have any students now under outside tuition. Yes. Yes. Just want to give kudos to our special needs educations as why people move to call center. Yeah. You know, I think that that's a great highlight when and when you look at that, you know, public schools have a decision as we all go through. There's sometimes you look at the program, the need of the children, but it's really about what the best placement is. And sometimes for school districts, it's saying, well, if there's already a
049well-established program here or fitting the needs or if a child has significant needs that are best met outside of the school environment, that's something that the school district and the parent work collaboratively on to uh make a recommendation for the most appropriate placement. Yep. Great. Uh, anybody else want to add anything? Okay, great. Let's have a roll call then for items 1 through 10. Superintendent action. Mrs. Cameron, yes. Mr. Erica, yes. Mrs. Ramirez, yes. Mr. Ran, yes. Mr. Scales, yes. Mrs. Vulpi, yes. Mr. Yes. Thank you. The motion carries. Okay, great. Uh, under buildings and grounds, uh, if I can get a motion to move items one and two. Motion. Second. Mr. Walsh. Okay, great. Uh, any comments on those two items? School paving. We have a great collaboration with um cooperative agreement with Mammoth
050County Department of Transportation. Saying that right saving us a ton of money, I'll put it that way. A partnership with uh county and project shared services. Shared services. Thank you. Just a comment for um just just number one like we I had a question um when the architect was here if you recall I was asking about like materials and um equipment if they had to be Americanmade because there's a law that they have to be Americanmade right so there's no we're not dealing with tariffs but for like an HVAC unit for example do we know if that has to be because I've seen we do have foreign HVAC units on the middle school. So, do we know do we have to follow same guidelines where it has to be an American product or I don't
051no HVAC. Yeah. So, it can be Yeah. I don't know if it was part of the specifications. We can find out. I mean, we can find out. I'm not uncertain. That's Yeah, we can confirm that there's any sort of tax credits we get for using Americanmade products versus international. We can certainly request that. Great. Any other comments on those uh two buildings and grounds items? All right. Uh if we could have a roll call. Okay. Mrs. Cameron. Yes. Mr. Yes. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Scales. Yes. Mrs. Vi. Yes. And Mr. Wolf. Yes. Motion carry. Okay. Great. I'm moving on to curriculum. Um I need a motion to move items one through five. One through five. Motion. Second. Any comments on one through five? Um I do on um the thin slicing. That's um number three
052under curriculum. So I was really excited to see that. Um, just to explain, it's really just taking these complex problems and breaking them down for students into like small manageable steps and um it's it comes from um these like building thinking classrooms with with like vertical learning. There's different principles of it and it's um it's something I was I was trained in and it's excellent. So, it was very exciting for me to see and just wanted to bring that to everyone's attention. Great. Thank you, Mrs. Cameron. Uh, anybody else like to comment on anything? All right, roll call on those items. Curriculum and instruction items 1 through five. Mrs. Yes. Thank you. Mr. Rico, yes. Mrs. Ramirez, yes. Mr. Rana, yes. Mr. Scales, yes. Mrs. Yes. Mr. Walsh. Yes. Motion passes. Okay, great. Moving on
053to finance. We have quite a bit here. I'd like to get a motion to move items one through 28 under finance. If anybody wants to take a minute to just look over that real quick if you haven't, I'd like to make a comment uh about number eight and nine. I just want to thank uh these two um security guards. They will be working during the summer here for our uh summer session. Uh I know both of them and I just want to say we appreciate their service uh and care for our students. They're both fantastic guys and uh we really appreciate the having them on staff. So, thank you to Pat and Aldo. Fan favorites for sure. Yes, they're ve very nice guys and every time I drop my daughter off at these schools, I
054I just know between them and the police officers. I always have a sense of um um calm when I when I drop my kids here, when I drop my daughter here. All right, moving on. Let's get a roll call for those items. I don't Do we make a motion? Oh, I'm sorry. Motion. Yeah, go ahead. So if if in looking at to answer your question and when you were asking that question number 10 is a perfect example of the question you asked regarding out of district students who pay for program services here. Yeah. Wow. That's a lot. So that takes care of the two that you were worried about in Milstone. All right. Great. Um a motion. I'm sorry. Did I miss that? I forgot already. Motion. Thank you. Second. And a roll call, please.
055Okay. Finance items 1 through 28. Mrs. Cameron. Yes. Mr. Ero. Yes. Mrs. Ramirez. Yes. Mr. Raetta. Yes. Mr. Scales. Yes. Mrs. Boly. Yes. Mr. Walsh. Yes. Motion carried. Great. Thank you. We have one item under policy. Uh if I could get a motion to move that one item. Motion. Second. Uh any questions on that attachment P1? Okay. I get a roll call. Policy. Mrs. Cameron. Yes. Mr. Rico. Yes. Mrs. Ramirez. Yes. Mr. Retta. Yes. Mr. Scales. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Walsh. Yes. Motion carried. Great. Thank you. Uh nothing under negotiations or TRA. Uh and we have let me see one uh one through three under transportation. If I could get a motion to move those three items. Motion. Second. Questions or comments? Just number two, that's Marvel using our school buses. Yes. So, as part
056of the budget process, uh we Mr. Morasco works with our transportation coordinator to coordinate uh jointers that go on and those are from middle school runs. So, that is revenue to the district that we seek out in partnership for the utilization of our buses just because of the tiered busing schedules. Um so, we're always looking at opportunities to do that and availability. Um Mr. Mask also worked with uh Mrs. Uh um thank you Arasco, my apologies. Uh to uh to be able to look at um bringing back some of the runs uh util and and offering we're exploring offering uh private school out of district runs ourselves and maintaining some of that cost and actually generating revenue through that as well. Yes, correct. Through joiners in that way. So that's um we're in that exploration
057range for next year as well. Yeah. Very efficient. So that's the essentially that is the large another pro to own our own school buses. Yes. Dr. Gar, how are we looking on our our being said, how are we looking on our fleet right now? Nothing no issues with the fleet or anything wrong with the buses right now? Anything we have to replace the bus or anything like that soon? That's why we need this money. If I may, We have a superior fleet or so vehicles. If you recall, we um benefited from utilizing stabilization aid in 2324. We purchased four brand new vehicles. So, we have a stellar team that, you know, does their regular maintenance on them. We think we pass with flying colors when we our division of motor vehicle inspections. So, we are
058excited. Okay, Vinnie. That's because we have bulletproof doors and windows on the buses. Yes. Which is much needed nowadays. To expand on that, we're excited because we're um we're at a point where we're we are replacing, if you recall, it was part of the budget discussion, the two-way communications process. So we'll be following through on that this year for September time to and to answer we have um our transportation coordinator works with Mr. Morasco for a cycling. There's a certain amount of time that buses have to be retired. Um so we try to anticipate that um and build it into the budget cycle. Sometimes we're a able to buy them outright. Sometimes it's financially beneficial to lease them and wrap them into other big things that are going into the district. It depends on how
059the outcome of you know the financial resources are regarding our revenues for the year as well as our anticipated expenditures. So that's something that um when we applied and brought in the stabilization aid last year, we were able to capture um three was it two four vehicles through this stabilization aid um which was huge for our district which was huge. So but they're also on a time cycle. So we just we always want to be anticipating 12 years and the the cost of our upkeep and the cost for the mechanics are out definitely outweigh what we make from it. Cost out what we Yeah. What we like we we're making from giving it to Marorrow or Oh, in that situation, yes, it's a it's a win served for cheaper cost than it would if they
060had to subcontract it out through a agency, let's say. So, the state is is very proving these joints between districts. So, that's what transport transportation coordinators do all year long is talking district other school trying to see how many you know what's available on this run or I picked up a new student that has to go to a special ed school out in you know Milstone or something you know what do you have what kind of routes so that's always being explored to for cost efficiency thank you so much it's great so two fantastic words superior and stellar that I love to hear in our district superior um Okay. The best buses we've ever seen. All right. Let's get a roll call. Let's get a roll call um on those three items, please. Yes. Transportation.
061Mr. Mrs. Cameron. Yes. Mr. Yes. Mrs. Ramirez. Yes. Mr. Riga. Yes. Mr. Scales. Yes. Mrs. Buly? Yes. Mr. Wall? Yes. The motion carried. Uh, great. Thank you. Okay, moving on to personnel. This is quite lengthy. Uh, if I could get a motion to move items 1 through 24. One, two, one through 24. Please take your time. If anybody wants to scan through that once again to do so, just give me one second. Anybody have questions or comments? Um I had a question on um the substitute teachers here. Now these here um do they have uh any degrees like when we when we choose these and we interview for this position um what are the requirements for the substitutes? It's a good question. So there's the the state requires um you to have at least a
062county substitute certificate which is a minimal amount of credits which I want to say is 60. So you have to have like an associates degree. Okay. Uh in order to be able to uh be a substitute. Some of our substitutes have have uh bachelor's degrees. Some have advanced degrees and they're just looking to full-time where others are certified teachers um who are looking to break into the field or whatnot. depending upon the length a daily sub requires a county substitute certificate. So that that associates degree. Um but if you're doing anything beyond 20 days in a uh a certification, you have to have a certified teacher. So we look for um teachers that are able, you know, substitutes with certified teachers who have to be who are going to be in the classroom beyond 20
063days to be a certified teacher. What if um when you say 20 days, that's for like a medical leave, but 20 consecutive days. Yep. So, I'm sorry, I should have been more clear. 20 consecutive days in the same um I was going to say people, you know, if a teacher gets sick and they call out and there's 20 days over the course of the year, it's consecutive. It's consecutive. Correct. Yes. Okay. U great. I wasn't sure how they um how we we did that, what the protocol was. Yep. Um Okay. Anybody else have any questions about all of the personnel? Okay, we'll get a roll call. Yep. Oh, did I'm sorry. Can I get a motion to move? Motion. Sorry, that was so lengthy. I forgot where it was. Second. Okay, great. And a roll
064call at this time. Thank you, Mrs. Cameron. Yes, Mr. Rico. Yes, Mrs. Ramirez. Yes, Mr. Regetta. Yes, Mr. Scales. Yes, Mrs. Vulpi. Yes, Mr. Walsh. Yes. Motion pass. Oh, okay. I didn't hear you. I'm sorry. I was talking to her. Um, okay, great. Um, thank you very much, Mr. Rasco. Okay, moving on. We have our last public comment section. Uh, once again, if anybody wants to get up again and add anything to the meeting, you could do so. Just state your name and address for the record. Okay. Um, all right. Nothing at this time. We'll close public comment. Um, uh, anybody have any new business they'd like to This is camera. So, I just wanted to, um, congratulate, um, Colneck High School and the Freehold Regional High School class of 2025. Their graduation is tonight.
065That's where Mr. Scarpa is. And, um, just, you know, wish all these kids the best as they take on new adventures. They chase their dreams, they make their mark on the world, which is exciting for them. So, a lot of our previous students are graduating. So, it's very exciting. It is exciting. It's It's awesome to see. Yeah. It's It's kind of sad for the parents to be going to college, though. Oh, I dread that moment. Um, anybody else? Yep. Any Anybody else want to add anything? Nope. Uh, I just want to add a quick um uh thing. Due to the heightened tensions around the world um going on, I just want to uh ask everybody to pray for our military. Um I get so emotional about it but um just pray for their safety going
066forward. Okay. All right. Uh we are going to move into uh executive session at this time. No action will be taken. Live stream will be uh will be ended at this time and we will not uh we will not go back. Yep. Oh, I'm sorry. Yep. Uh it's an individual uh privacy issue. Oh, okay. You didn't put that on there. Oh, it's on there. Oh, okay. It's a confidential uh issue of the superintendent evaluation for the 202425 school year. Yeah, superintendent evaluation. Evaluation. Our military gets me all choked up every time. So, all right. Uh, thank you. So, if I could get a motion to uh move into executive session at this time. About 30 minutes. I'd say 30 minutes. No, five. 30 35 minutes. Thank you, Jason. Motion five minutes. Motion second. Second for
067five minutes. All in favor? I motion pass. Great. Thank you everybody.