001a little bit. So, we will continue on uh with the agenda. The next item on the agenda is pledge of allegiance. If everyone will please rise. Okay. So, we will have two special presentations. Uh first one will be on October 13th. Uh and it looks like the administration will be providing a report on HIB and the grades. Uh October 27th, Dr. Cullis will be presenting the New Jersey SLA scores from the 2425 school year. Looking forward to that. Uh superintending comments. Dr. Forte, whenever you're ready. >> Thank you. Um the golf outing for the Denver Education Foundation is October 16th. You can buy tickets on their website and um school opening went great. It was really nice to see everybody back. Um it one of the things I noticed a lot was just how it
002was great to see how the kids and the teachers missed each other over the summer. Super nice. Um I did get to go to all three openings. It's kind of rushed because you got to get to a little bit and then get to get to the next one. Um, but it was really nice and I know it's my last first day, but it was it was it was a great last first day for me. Um, I also want to bring your attention to our funding question website, denville vote nov4.org. I shared it with you this weekend in our um in the minutes from the comm the committees as well as in my board report. It's got a lot of information. We're having cards printed up with a QR code that will take you to that
003website and we will be um discussing these at back to school nights and any other opportunity we can. And the vote is on November 4th for our $700,250 question to renovate the second floor of the annex as well as to fund some needed personnel and to uh pay for the additional costs associated with the second floor of the annex. Currently, we only rent and use the first floor. So, this would be additional rent and personnel and other other pieces up there. Um, back to school nights. We have all three of them in a row. So, Lake View is September 9th. That's tomorrow. Valley View September 10th and Riverview September 11th. And they are all at 6:30 p.m. So, again, Lake View September 9th, Valley View September 10th, and Riverview September 11th, 6:30 p.m. And I
004will be speaking when it gets to the uh part where everyone's in the large room. And I will hopefully have those cards by tomorrow. our our printer assured us we'll have them. So, we'll pick them up and we'll start passing them out. And that's it for superintendent comments. >> Thank you, Dr. Forte. Just to follow up, if anyone from the public has a question with regards to that, uh, do they contact you directly? >> Yes, my name and phone number and address, I mean, email address are on every card. >> Great. And on the website, correct? >> Correct. >> Awesome. Thank you, Dr. Forte. Assistant Superintendent Comments. Dr. colors if you will. >> I'll second that. We had a great opening day. We had wonderful weather and a great start. Great to see all the
005kids back. Uh just an update on our kindergarten numbers. At Lake View, we have 78, Riverview 92 for a total of 170. This concludes assistant superintendent report. >> Thank you very much, Dr. Cullis. Business administrator comments >> on the agenda tonight uh is the reapproval of the quote from EI Associates. uh regarding the site study in the amount of $12,000. The reason why we are reapproving this uh resolution is to utilize maintenance reserve which we did not uh stated in the previous resolution. >> Thank you for that clarification and thank you Miss Gowski. All right, the next item on the agenda is to open it up for public questions or comments. It is currently 7:41 p.m. If anyone in the public or online has any questions, feel free to state your name and address and
006then the question. Seeing no one in the in the chambers and no one online, we'll go ahead and close public comments at 7:41 p.m. Old business, no action to be taken. Dr. Moore, can you walk us through that, please? >> Uh, yes. I'd like to uh move for approval the following resolutions under old business. A is the number one the treasurer of school monies to board secretary. Uh B is uh there's no action to be considered on the agenda. C is the minutes from uh August 18th. Thank you. Any questions or comments? The ne the next item on the agenda is uh personnel. Mr. Capello, the floor is yours. >> Thank you very much. Uh, if there are no objections, under personnel, I would like to move items one through five as a block. One
007includes uh new hires, resignations, retirements, employee leaves, extra pay, salary, and adjustments. Sorry, just flipping over. Um, number two is approving the we're approving the revised staff list for the 2526 school year. Number three, we are approving the attached list of leave replacement staff also for the 2526 school year. Number four is we're approving the substitute list for the 2526 school year. And finally, uh the board is approving the following mentor mentee relationships for the 2526 school year. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. Questions or comments? >> Roll call, please. Dr. Moore, >> yes. >> Miss Eststerino, >> yes. Mr. Cass, >> yes. >> Mr. Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Capello, >> yes. >> Mr. Kim, >> yes. Okay. Under IMP, uh, there's no resolutions to vote on. Um, under governance, uh, I was hoping
008to get some resolutions that we would look to approve for the delegate assembly by the end of the year, but unfortunately I couldn't do that. So, my hope is that this week uh I'd be able to send out the uh resolution to the board members. If you can review that and then if so, I'll add that to the next agenda. Uh under finance, Mr. Anderson, um the floor is yours. Sure. Under D finance, I'd like to move the following resolutions for approval. First is be it resolved the board approved the donation of 13 $10 gift certificates for the staff convocation, total $130. Number two, be it resolved the Dville Township Board of Education reapproved the attached quote from EI Associates regarding the site study in the amount of $12,000 paid from maintenance reserve. Number three,
009be it resolved, the Denville Township Board of Education approved the deposit of $400,000 into the emergency reserve account from excess surplus from the 2024 2025 school year. Number four, be it resolved the Denverville Township Board of Education approved the attached quote from Makeo Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. to repair the Valley View Gym RTU board in the amount of $4,165 paid from maintenance reserve. And finally, number five, be it resolved the Denver Township Board of Education approved the agreement with Center for Education or sorry, excuse me, Center for Evaluation and Counseling, Inc. to provide school clearance risk assessments for the 2025 2026 school year at the cost of $300 to $900 per assessment. >> Mr. Anderson, before we proceed with the second, um the administration would like to change number three from $400,000 to $300,000.
010>> Thank you for the reminder. Thank you. Yes. Uh friendly amendment to change the deposit to $300,000 into the emergency reserve account. >> I'll check them. Thank you both. questions or comments? >> Sorry. Uh, a quick question on number four. Um, I read the, uh, description of this that apparently the technician found something not where the something not working at, uh, Valley View. What was the effect of that? Like, was part of the air conditioning not running or kind of what what did this mean? The air the air conditioning was not running had stopped completely and they had to change the bore of the RTU and the full replacement. >> This was in a particular area or like I'm >> it was in the gym the value gym. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. >>
011I can add on to that. Before the meeting started, I talked to the business administrator. Um we do have a very vigorous maintenance plan. All the air conditioning units are getting checked twice a year. >> Twice a year. So this was discovered during a uh a routine maintenance type of check. And of course with air conditioning, we're going in cold weather now, but there's nothing worse than not having it when you need it when the weather is hot. So uh they do check all the uh units and the control boards, etc. So, looks like it's under control and there is money parked for it out of maintenance reserve to pay for these repairs because they s they certainly got my attention the amount. >> Thank you, Mr. Cass. Um, I actually had a question. We
012have resolution number two here. Uh, and you said this is to replace the other approved resolution from the other meeting. Uh, do we need to also um withdraw that resolution? >> Not necessarily. We're just approve reapproving it to pay from maintenance reserve funds. >> Okay. So, a little bit more specificity. >> Correct. >> All right. Thank you very much. >> Okay. Any other questions or comments? Can we have roll call, please? >> Dr. Moore? >> Yes. >> Miss Asterino? >> Yes. >> Mr. Cass? >> Yes. >> Mr. Anderson? >> Yes. >> Mr. Capello? >> Yes. Mr. Kim. >> Yes. Mr. Cass, can you walk us through operations? >> Be glad to. Under transportation, we have item 1.1. I'm asking the board to approve the sale of a 2011 international school bus to Hulcom Transportation, the
013highest responsible bidder in the amount of $6,35. 1.2 2 is to approve the sale of a 2010 international school bus to Hulcom Transportation, the highest responsible bid bidder in the amount of $6,400. Item 1.3 to approve the attached quote from Wright height for the purchase of a fleet plow medium plow snow scraper in the amount of $32,858 paid from maintenance reserve. Number two, buildings and grounds. I'm asking the board to approve the attached quote from EI Associates in connection with the brewery review annex roof replacement project in amount of $7,000. 2.2 is to retroactively approve the attached quote from Consolidated Environmental Incorporated for microbial remediation work at Valley View Middle School in the amount of $5,200 to be paid from maintenance reserve. >> I'll second. Thank you. Questions or comments? >> Yeah, >> you had
014a question. Um the the snow plow >> snow scraper flee plow. Is that uh do we have one that's like worn out? Can we resell it or just going to be recycled or are we going to keep it? >> It's the thing that cleans the top of the buses. >> Yeah. You ride the bus underneath and it takes the snow off the top. >> Okay. That sounds pretty good. What have they been doing in the past? Getting on a ladder with a with a with a with a broom. Very very dangerous. >> Exactly. Yeah. >> I have a correction on 2.1. It should say using capital reserve. That's the way it was budgeted appro approved during the budget time. >> Mr. Cass, uh Mr. Capella, do you uh agree to that change? >> Uh yeah.
015Can we just read that in then? Where does that go? Is that just a >> 2.2? >> No, I understand. But where in the sentence? >> 2.1 at the >> I'm sorry. 2.1. It will be resolved that the Dendle Township Board of Education approved the attached quote from EI Associates in connection with the River Riverview annex roof replacement project in the amount of $7,000 utilizing capital reserves. >> Got it. Thank you. I'm good. >> I'm okay. >> Great. Thank you. Any other questions or comments? >> Um, so I was reading the uh history of the buses. So we put them out locally for bid and you got $700 and then you went to this. So yeah, I kind of just wanted to hear more about that. >> Of course. In June, we passed a resolution
016to advertise this two school buses that no longer are needed in the district after 15 years of use. Uh there was no biders and after there was no one bidding on the buses, uh our mechanic looked locally to see if any other auto shop would would like uh would be interested in purchasing these buses and one of them offer $700 per bus. I was not satisfied with that $700 given that the buses are still running and we can utilize them. Unfortunately, not for students. um by talking with other another colleague uh in the business industry uh somebody mentioned a website called gov gov uh gov deals. I contacted them and uh put the but the buses out to bid and I selected two weeks of auction. At the beginning of this u transaction there was
017hardly anybody bidding on it. The last five days you can see the numbers going up and up and up. The day before it was only $2,200 about per bus. The last 15 minutes went up to 6,000 a bus. >> Excellent. >> I feel like I feel like I've seen that reality show a few times. >> Thank Well, thank you, Dearis. I mean, that's obviously fantastic and obviously hopefully something you add to your repertoire now going forward. That's great. Awesome. >> If there are no other questions or comments, roll call, please. >> Dr. Moore. >> Yes. >> Miss Asterino. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cass. >> Yes. >> Mr. Anderson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Capello. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kim. >> Yes. Okay. The next section on the agenda is new business. No action to be taken.
018So, Mr. Capello, can you walk us through personnel, please? >> I'd be happy to. Uh at the next meeting I or someone else will be moving items under personnel which current which currently ex uh consist of two items. One is a uh salary um adjustment for uh a afterchool enrichment coordinators and the second one is um approving employees for leave of absence uh under FMLA. Uh and um yeah, that's it. >> I'll second. >> Oh, it's uh there's no need for >> next week. You can do that. >> The next meeting we can >> so excited about approving those things. Any questions or comments? Dr. Moore, can you walk us through IMP, please? >> Uh, yes. Uh, either myself or someone else, uh, we'll move for approval of the following uh, resolutions under instruction and
019program. Uh, there are no workshops under number one. Under number two, the attached list of field trips. And item number three is the, uh, staff resiliency training program. If there are no questions, we'll move on to governance. Uh I'll go ahead and just read this. Uh under section one, we will be approving for first reading the list of policies that are seen on the agenda. And some samples include updated policy on legal revisions, some new policies like student sunscreen protection and the abolishment of um the final or the last policy on the list. Okay. Uh the next section is finance, Mr. Anderson, if you will. >> Sure. At the next meeting, uh myself or someone else will move under D finance, uh will include item number one, which is the uh checklist, which we'll receive
020prior to the meeting. Item number two is for the board to approve the disposal of equipment list that is uh listed below in the agenda. There are 10 items. And then uh item number three is for the board to accept the donation of various boxes of colored paper with an estimated value of $200 from Tural Bookbinding facil facilitated through Ms. Julie Guzy any questions or comments? Mr. Cass, it looks like there's nothing under operations at this moment. So we'll go ahead and proceed to the next item which is the good of the callouts committee reports, correspondence and discussion items that include uh board meeting highlights, a schedule uh any new scheduling events for board members to attend and classroom space consider considerations. >> Dr. for do you have uh your board meeting highlights that you
021wish to uh announce and publicize? >> No. What do we got any? >> Not a problem. Uh I'm thinking back to school night. Uh the convocations were a huge success I thought. Um which I think I will um add a comment to. I thought that was a a very well-run um event and I was particularly um amused by the the the AI generated video that the administrators put. So, uh please tell them that they did a wonderful job with that. >> For the record, I would watch a series on Scala trying to teach his daughter how to drive. >> My favorite part. I would subscribe. I would watch the YouTube channel. all the things. >> Um, and maybe the vote too as well or I'll let you use your discretion on that. Any other board
022members with uh something they'd like to add? Um, Dr. Dr. Forte, I was wondering if you were going to uh have a public presentation here during a board meeting with regards to the November 4th vote as well. Is that something that was on your uh docket or your plan or uh just planning on doing it through um back to school night? >> No, we were going to do back to school nights and then we're going to do them uh some forums. We could pick one of these as one of the forums if we like um if it's convenient to people. It's mostly about getting people out. So if this is a optimal day then maybe okay. Uh if there's nothing else with regards to good of the cause, we'll go ahead and open it up
023for the second portion or the second um time for public comments at 7:57 p.m. So again, uh there are no one in the chambers and no one online, so we'll close it at 7:57 p.m. Uh there will be a need for executive session. So Mrs. Asterino, could you walk us through that, please? >> Sure. Um I move to convene an executive session in accordance with section 8 of the open public meetings act. The purpose of this closed session will be to discuss negotiations, legal, security and personnel issues. Minutes of this session will be made available to the public when the need for confidentiality no longer. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> I. >> Any naysensions? We are adding in executive at 7:58 p.m.