001out of executive session and moving on with the agenda. The next item is the pledge of allegiance. If everyone will please stand. Okay. On June 14th, there'll be a special presentation where we will be uh presented the 2024 2025 fullyear harassment, intimidation, and bullying, HI, and school safety data system reports, superintendent and assistant superintendent comments. Dr. Cullis. Sure. Just a kindergarten update. We actually have gone down one student, Lake Views at 67 and Riverview 89. A total of 166 kindergarteners. Our summer learning assignments and school supply lists are available on our website right on the front page. Also in last week's Friday folder and the newsletter. ESY and Dallas summer programs are starting on Monday, June 30th. This concludes assistant superintendent report. Thank you. Business administrator comments. Mrs. Gowski. On tonight's agenda, uh there is
002an a resolution to approve a grant. Uh and the name of the grant is school violence prevention program. This grant is uh thank you Mrs. Selis for forwarding this information to me and we are submitting this grant in um coordination with the police the Dell police department. They are submitting one for radios and we are as well to replace our radio fleet for the transportation as well as for the school districts and uh we also included in the grant a uh uh part-time technology personnel to help us implement implement uh the radios um if it's awarded and this is all have to do with security and uh we had in the budget to um replace shades of valley view district-wide in the school in the school. So, I decided to submit that uh portion to
003the grant as well. So, the the total grant submission is $239,000. Great. Thank you for that information. Is that something that is already been decided upon or it's an application for the grant? I just submitted the application. The application is due on the 26th of this month. It was submitted last Friday and we should have noticed by early September. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Zelis, as well. Keep our fingers crossed. And does that conclude the comments, Miss Noski? All right. We will now open it up for public comments or questions at 7:33 p.m. Seeing it being a ghost town, both online and in the chambers, we'll close public comments at 7:33 p.m. And moving on, old business action to be taken. Mrs. Aelis. Uh, sure. Uh, I move to approve the following resolutions under
004old business. Uh, a the reports for 2025. Treasure of school monies and board secretary reports. B, the education reports report of student enrollment for May 2025 and the report of health office for 2025. And C, the minutes from the May 12th meeting and the May 19th meeting, executive sessions and regular sessions. I'll second. Thank you. Questions or comments? Roll call, please. Dr. Moore. Yes. Mr. Delis, yes. Miss Asterino, yes. Mr. Cass, yes. Mr. Anderson, yes. Mr. Kim, yes. New business action to be taken. Uh, since Mr. Capello is not here, uh, Dr. Moore, do you feel like doing double duty today or? Sure. Uh, so either myself or someone else. So, sorry, I'm Sound not. I'd like to move for approval the following resolutions under personnel. Item number one um A and B is uh
005sick day payouts. Uh C is um to attend and assist with preK and new student orientation. D and C are uh move room movement uh for prep. Uh item F is uh to give uh input into incoming kindergarten info in preparation for 2526. G is uh to help conduct uh kindergarten orientation. Um that would be H as well. And uh I is to assist in new student orientation. J uh assist attending and assisting in new student orientation as well as K. Uh I is uh for uh Seth Corman and John Englishman for the Valley View being awarded the National School of Character for 2025. Uh M is um to complete the honors biology parent presentation and uh N and O are summer work days. P is a a cash out of five vacation days. Uh
006Q is u a replacement. Uh R is uh instructional aid for 2526 school year. Uh S is a counselor for 2526 school year. Uh T is a replacement. U is teacher for 2526 school year. V is uh replacement school secretary. Um W is bus driver for 2526 school year. X is uh Stephanie Damino uh moving on the salary guide. Uh Y and Z and AA are resignations. Uh number two is to approve the updated staff listing for summer 2025. Three is to approve the attached list of uh extracurricular and stipen positions for 2526. Four is to approve the attached sidebar agreement with the DEA. Five is to approve the updated master staff list. Uh six is to approve of leave of absence and seven is uh revisions to the attached job descriptions uh for head
007mechanic, maintenance assistant, maintenance custodian, mechanic and network technician support specialist. I'll second. Thank you. Uh questions or comments? Dr. Moore, thank you very much for that. By the way, Dr. Collins, number seven is in reference to the driver's license thing you mentioned earlier. That is correct. Those positions require a valid driver's license to complete their job description. Thank you very much. If there are no further questions, roll call, please. Dr. Moore. Yes, Mrs. Dillis. Yes, Miss Asterino. Yes, Mr. Cass. Yes, Mr. Anderson. Yes, Mr. Kim. Yes, Dr. Moore, if you can run us through as well. Sure. I'd like to move uh for approval the following resolutions under instruction and program. Under number one, uh, workshops and expenses, we have a summer writing institute and an IST live 2025 annual summer technology conference. Uh, number
008two is the adoption and purchase of a six-year contract for the updated uh, middle school essentials health text program. Item number three is the purchase the of Rubicon Atlas to replace the encourse lesson planner for teachers. Item number four is to approve the Title 3 Consortium purchases for school districts Bloomingdale, Rockaway Burrow, Lincoln Park Burrow, and Dville Township. Second. Thank you, Mrs. A. Dallas. Any questions or comments? Uh, Dr. Collis, number three, the encourse lesson planner for teachers. uh it's jumping up from uh $1,200 to $9,000 annually. Uh does that warrant a four or five time uh cost increase in cost? Uh our current encourse is $9,000. So Rubicon Atlas does a few things. One, it is a lesson planner. It's also where we will house our curriculum so that it is searchable and uh
009usable on our website for families and as well as our teachers. So, there's a onetime fee 11,000 of rolling over our current tech u curriculum that's formatted in um uh just in a word format uh that it would need to be all rolled over into Rubicon Atlas. So, that's a onetime fee. So, normally we pay $9,000 for Encourse, but the lesson planner portion of this program will be $1,200. The annual fee of is 9,000. So, it does slightly go up, but it doesn't just the lesson planner, it's now going to be housing all of our curriculum. Okay. So, it should be a lot more efficient and it will be a lot more efficient because it's right now our documents are thousands of pages long and like I said, like a word document or PDF, it's
010very uncarchable. it's not searchable. So, we're looking for a way to make it a lot more user friendly for everyone. Okay. Thank you. If there are no other questions, roll call, please. I I had a question on the uh since I majored in English. the summer writing institute. Could you just got a just a couple of talking points of you know what's the uh the body of work we have a teacher doing that it's virtual like what are they covering and and teaching the course? Sure. This is so we still are continuing to work with the same program where we were were working with teachers college before now it's Mossflower is the new institutes so we're still sending people to summer institutes for the most part um we are able to use our title one
011funding to do that however the federal funding has come late to the states the states were just now given approval for their ESA plan we do not know how much we're going to get yet they usually we would have all of the grants complete needed by now. Um so I don't know. So we have to use budget or district money for this at this point. But the summer writing and summer reading institutes provide um the work with the current curriculum. So all of the units that we use um this particular teacher is multi-graded and so she will be covering um several different grade levels of writing curriculum. So just go teaches them how to use the units, how we do writing workshop, um you know all all of the aspects of our writing curriculum. So
012it's currently the writing curriculum that we use. So it's not like a general writing institute. It's specifically on the curriculum that we use. It's like a business proformer is giving the teachers like a a matrix of a plan to follow. I mean but but also what exactly are they teaching the teachers anything to you know like in English I mean English you writing you know literature grammar this one is not because this is an elementary but they do all of those things but they're embedded into their writing units. So spelling and grammar go within the writing units. So they're specifically going to go over last year we just purchased the new um writing unit. So, they're all brand new and the teacher is just wanting to learn more about each of the units because there's
013six units during the year. There's a lot of content in them. There's like three different bends uh in each unit and so they have to learn all of the lessons that go in that unit, all the teaching points as well as how to deliver the information, strategies of how to conduct writing workshop. So, it's all writing workshop based at this point. Well, thank you very much. I appreciate that additional info. Okay. Roll call, please. Dr. Moore, yes. Mr. Delis, yes. Miss Asterino, yes. Mr. Cass, yes. Mr. Anderson, yes. Mr. Kim, yes. Next item on the agenda is governance. While there are no actions or resolutions to be voted on, uh I'm going to ask the board members to pull up the uh uh Charlene Peterson summary document for later discussion uh specifically dur during the
014good of the cause and that document can be found in um in a folder and that link to the folder is found in Dr. Forte's um board reports. So uh we'll be discussing some of the goals during the cause for during for the good of the cause. Uh finance is the next item on the agenda. Mr. Anderson, if you will. Sure. If there are no objections, I'd like to move under D finance items number 1 through 12 as a block. This includes our uh standard checks list uh which is a monthly event uh is including a transfer from uh regarding the reserve a capital reserve transfer excuse me uh as well as a maintenance reserve transfer in item number three. Item number four is the uh board to authorize the business administrator to proceed with
015all necessary entries for the 2024 2025 school year including cancellation of purchase orders, stale dated checks, transfers, compliances with public contract law and award of bids and other such actions as may be required by statute, code and policy. Any action taken shall be confirmed by the board of education at its next regular public meeting. Item number five is to approve the standard operating procedures and internal control manu manual. Item number six is for the board to approve the attached bid award letters from educational data services inc commission of Mars County for school supplies for the 2025 2026 school year. Item number seven is for the board to approve the agreement between home care therapies DBA Horizon healthcare staffing along with Horizon staffing resources uh and the board of education uh with the details listed in
016the agenda. Item number eight is for the board to approve a student uh to attend enrichment classes over the summer at Lake View School. Item number nine is for the board to approve the agreement with PG Chambers to provide ESY uh physical therapy services and evaluations uh for the 2025 2026 school year not to exceed $10,000. Item number 10 is for the board to approve the agreement with Dr. Elizabeth Clary to provide additional physical therapy services for a particular student for the 2025 2026 extended school year end school year at $120 per hour session plus $20 travel fee per session total not to amount uh amount not to exceed $6,670. It number 11 is for the board to approve the following district placements as per the students IEP. Uh there's a multitude of students listed
017on the agenda. And then item number 12 finally is for the board to approve the donation of one art class from All Children's Art Center of New Jersey to to be provided during the 2025 extended school year program at Lake View School. I'll second. Thank you. Any questions or comments? Uh just just a quick one. Uh well, I don't know if it's quick. Um Miss Growski, I know this is complicated. Um, and and maybe you don't have the answer, but I'm just kind of curious with with item number 11 with all the out of district placements. We get some funding or we're supposed to get some funding back from the state, right, for for some of these things. Is there is there any easy way to say how much we get? No, there's no easy
018way. On an annual basis, we have to submit the extraordinary aid application. And that application we submit all the costs for out of district placements as well as in district and it has to exceed certain amount of dollars. Out of district placement any amount exceed that exceeds $55,000 we might be able to uh get reimburse a portion of that. any in district uh student that exceed $40,000, we will probably as well be able to receive certain amount a percentage of it. But the percentage is not the same every single year. It's determined based on how many school districts submit the application and how much is submitted uh New Jersey. Do you know what the percentage was for last year? Was 90%. 90% correct? Okay. Thank you. Is that is that above that's but that would
019be above the 40 or 50,000, right? It was is above the 55,000 or the 40,000. So in theory, if if there were a $100,000 school, it wouldn't be 90% of the 50,000. Correct. Not not the total. That's why it's called extraordinary. All right. Any other questions or comments? Roll. Roll call, please. Dr. Moore. Yes. Miss Delos. Yes. Miss Asterino. Yes. Mr. Cass. Yes. Mr. Anderson. Yes. Mr. Kim? Yes. Mr. Cass. Operations if you will, please. Under operations, we have item 1.1 for transportation. We're asking the board to approve the following parent transportation contracts listed below A through E for the 2025 2026 school year. Under buildings and grounds item 2.1, I'm asking the board to approve the submission of the anticipated facility requests for the 2025 2026 school year to the Morris County Superintendent of
020Schools. The Demo Board of Education does not anticipate applying for changes of use and or dual use for the 2526 school year. Item 2.2 Two is for the Dell Township Board of Ed to improve the attached revised facilities usage form for the 2025 2026. We go to referend CC3 and FC3 for details. Item 2.3. I'm asking the board to approve the following required maintenance expenditures with the amount listed below utilizing maintenance reserve funds. Rio Supply Incorporated for three water meters for Lake View and Malibu in the amount of $8,984. Altech Incorporated plumbing work to remove and replace three water meters at Valibue and Lake View for the amount of $3,000. 2.4 Four is to approve the attached agreement between M American Elevator Company and the Denver Board of Education for the preventive maintenance of the
021Valley Middle Valley View Middle School elevator for the upcoming school year and the amount of $250 per month. Item 2.5 is for the board to approve the submission of the fiscal year 2025 school violence prevention program in coordination with the Denver Police Department to request funding through the school violence prevention program for the purposes as listed below. If the grant is awarded, the district will receive funds up to 75% of the allowable cost to improve the school safety. A minimum of 25% local cost shared or matching funds is required by the district. So the items are BHF radio communication upgrade, part-time technology personnel, window shades for the middle schools, interior access control system, and the amounts for each are included there. Item 2.6 Six for the board to approve the attached quote from Magic Touch
022Construction Company Incorporated. ESC cooperative number 289 M OEC contracts 2456 electrical services regarding a Lake View School Wall Crack project number ES9407-00 in the amount of $59,810 utilizing capital reserve funds. 2.7 is for the board to approve the attached quote from Crossroads Pavement Maintenance Incorporated. EDS number 109 McAdam number 24A for the paving project at Lake View and revenue schools in the amount of $240,890 utilizing capital reserve funds. Second. Thank you. Any questions or comments? Seeing none. Roll call, please. Dr. Moore, yes. Mr. Adelis, yes. Miss Asterino, yes. Mr. Cass, yes. Mr. Anderson, yes. Mr. Kim, yes. All right. For the good of cause committee reports, correspondence discussion items such as board meeting highlights or classroom space considerations or anything else gerine to the district. Do we have um board meeting highlights that you wish
023to add, Dr. Cullis? For one, I was thinking uh graduation and uh have a happy summer. Uh I apologize. I was unable to attend the gra Valley View graduation due to illness. Uh just as a reminder for the board members uh we only have one meeting uh in July and one meeting in August. So it'll be a combined uh working session/regular session. Um during the committee meetings that are coming up this uh next month, uh we will be uh hopefully discussing goals uh the district goals and the uh board goals. Um I've had the opportunity to speak with all the board members individually and we've had some really good discussions. So, one of the new proposed board goals that I would like to add to the list that's found on Charlene's document is a process
024for us uh a better process to put together our goals. I mean, uh Dr. Mo and I spoke at length uh as well as uh individual board members and having an identified process and a timeline could really benefit um our board as well as future boards. Uh and this is something I'm discovering other board uh other boards are currently doing. So um maybe if we can even make it into a bylaw and I I'd like the governance committee to spearhead that and uh see if we can develop uh some goals. Now, Dr. Forte put some interesting stuff for us as well in that folder. Um, and so he already has some suggestions on some of our other board goals that we have such as uh what was it? The new member orientation documents. There's some
025interesting documents that Dr. Forte included. though. Um but yes, district goals uh again just as a reminder is to increase achievement for all students inclusive of all curriculum areas with a focus on math and science. Uh continue to discuss, investigate and report on possible solutions and challenges in the areas of instructional space, class size, financial operations. And then number three is to audit current special services program costs and offerings. consider possible additional efficient, effective and innovative programs. I actually like that one especially with some of the comments or the question that Dr. Moore you asked during the meeting uh like such as the reimbursement that we've been getting uh with uh out of placement uh students and then develop vertically aligned progress of social emotional learning skills. So hopefully we'll have that conversation in our
026um uh committees and see if we can further vet those out and see if those are uh uh good district goals. I placed uh goal 1, three, and four on the IMP uh for July 10th. So we'll be discussing it there. Great. Thank you. So if there's a way that we can include that and number two into finance and operations, Mike and Don, you guys are okay with that? Mr. Kim, can I just two quick comments on two of the goals? Um the the third goal I would suggest here we remove costs. I don't think that's a driver of ours. I think that's a potential outcome or whatever. But I think that really our goal is to evaluate our current programmings and offerings. And I love the rest of the wording. I just think if
027we start going down the road of cost, then we're going to be we're not trying to save cost, right? We're trying if there's a way if it results in an efficiency, great, but at the end of the day, we want to make sure we've got the best programs. I just want to be careful with how we're focusing that goal. That's all. The the uh I definitely understand and agree that uh costs is a sensitive topic. The the question um that I was I had in mind was were there opportunities for us to bring programs in in district and how how much would the district save in terms of that? that's sort of the thought process um from a cost perspective. Uh if that still is a sensitive topic and issue, then yeah, I I think
028that's important and maybe that could be f further vetted uh during uh committee conversations. I agree. I think the word efficient already encapsulates that. So therefore, like I I don't I wouldn't want as one of seven to make the goal to try to save costs with our special education programs. But if that's a efficiency that we find along the way where you know, and I know we've talked very recently about certain programs that Dr. Cullis and and uh Mrs. Johnson are looking at. Um so I think that's a natural outcome, but I I just get concerned about leaving the word cost there. If you think about the public reading that, they're not going to understand this conversation. They're just going to say, "Oh, they're just trying to cut cost out of the special education program."
029Yeah, I definitely see the nuance there, Mr. Anderson. So, yeah, I have no objections to that. And it flows nicely if you take that out because it's like audit current special services programs and offerings, consider possible additional efficient, effective, and innovative programs. And then the only other comment I wanted to make was what is the intended outcome of goal number four? How do we determine success on that or not? Because it says develop vertically aligned progress on social emotional learning skills prek through 8th. So I'm just not sure if we're sitting here a year from now or 11 months from now going did we meet that goal? Did we not meet it? Develop the right word in there. I'm not even sure that it's really we were looking at actually creating a document that had
030vertically aligned lessons all the way through of skills. So I think we have to play with that wording because it's not really progress as much as like we start out at a certain level skill and how that skill progresses. But I I can see that doesn't make sense the way it's written. Yeah, agreed. I think I think if we just play with that wording a little bit, I think we're all aligned. I just want to make sure we're not number two is going to be I think there's no way to put a definitive like outcome on that one because that could wave and wean in a few different ways along the way here and I think we know how to judge the success of that. Um but you know for instance this year we had
031a similar goal and we decided to say hey we're going to invest in a you know updated uh you know demographic study for instance right um but yeah I think we're aligned I think if that has a way to say hey it's a curriculum or it's a you know a document that shows kind of the vertically aligned uh programs within the different age groups or whatever. I think that would be make me feel a little more comfortable. That was all great. Thank you, Mr. Anderson. Anyone else? I think from uh board goals, the government uh governance committee can uh spearhead those and whittle that down. I feel some of them might be a little redundant or um unnecessary. So, um we'll try to whittle that down to three or four. So, um I know there
032is a communications goal that I'm still trying to work on as well. So, um we'll see what um how far I can get on that. And um I don't see anything else. Uh any other board members that wish to uh make a comment for the good of the cause? Not a board member, but I want to just comment. I don't think we have the highlights because um in the summer we don't do the newsletter. So, but I will just make note um Okay. Well, if Dr. I mean Dr. Forte does put out newsletter, we'll have a couple of highlights. Then if there is no newsletter, then I wish the district and the staff and administration and all the students a happy summer. So well done and an uh another su successful school year. I just
033want to add congratulations to the eighth graders. We were able to attend last week, last Tuesday, and it was very wellrun by the administration. always is very quick. Um, which is not expected of a you know two 200 class 200 students. Um, so just thank you to the administration, thank you to all the students and the parents. They were loud and excited and passionate about their next steps and we are excited for them as well. Okay. Um, we will now open it up to public comments at 8:01 p.m. Seeing that there's no one in the chambers or no one online, we'll close it at 8:02 p.m. There should be no need for another executive session. Move to adjurnn. Thank you. Can I have a second? All right, Mr. Cass, thank you for the second. All
034in favor? I. Any nays? Absentions? We are now adjourned at 8:02 p.m. Thank you everyone. I hope everyone has a happy summer.