001thank you we have returned from executive session uh it is 7:31 p.m. and we'll continue on with the agenda the next item is a pledge of allegiance if everyone will please stand States okay we do have a special presentation today March 10th uh the school year preliminary budget presentation but before we dive into that I'll make the announcement of the next series of presentations on March 27th Miss Peterson from New Jersey school boards will present updates on school board ethics on April 28th uh will be the final budget presentation and hearing and on June 9th uh which will have a special format in the form of a board retreat where the meeting will start at 6 o'clock uh New Jersey school boards will be presenting uh a recap of our goals uh as well as
002uh board self- evaluation and the setting of new goals for the next school year so okay Dr Forte Miss Kowski the floor is yours okay this is our our annual um preliminary budget report to the board for the next school year for the for the 24 25 26 school year okay our goals when we were making this budget was to try to keep class size within the board recommended levels maintain current programs continue to focus on student achievement continue to focus on health and wellness for students and staff maintain facilities and be fiscally efficient with that and we say this every year I don't really know another word to say other than challenging so this was really challenging um this slide I think tells it all are are costs in the increase in costs from
0032425 to 25 26 before adding any new stuff automatic already went up 1.5 million in labor costs 670,000 in special education costs 201,000 in transportation increases and then another 990,000 in technology cyber security then where where um where does all this money go right we we like to always say that this this this slide has this pie chart and out of our entire budget 80.7% goes to um salary and benefits and that those two areas are are rais are are continue to ra rise at a higher level um our our salary increases were around 3.7% and our medical insurance increase was around 20% correct you remember we did move from our private carrier into the state to save us some money but if you recall when we did that our our carrier before gave us
004a 50% increase so this is definitely an issue and um I know we were able to make it work we did get some waivers and things and I'll talk about the next slide but um I just feel like the boy you cry wolf every year here like we keep saying it's tough it's tough but um it's getting harder and harder because the costs are going up at a higher rate than we can raise funds and at the same time we're trying to eliminate the preby that we has been uh doing in past years so we're trying to physically um set up this budget for future years more manageable so where is the uh Revenue the increase in Revenue we have a 2% tax cap tax levy cap of 77,000 our banked cap from last year
005meaning this was money that we could have raised the budget by last year but we didn't and the state allows you to carry it over to another year that's another 200,000 we got a student enrollment adjustment of 510,000 because we have um an increase of about 50 students and some additional special education costs we got an $860,000 health benefits adjustment so the state recognized when dearis put our numbers in the in the uh budget software that the rate went up higher than we could possibly manage and uh they allowed us another $86,000 waiver and then we also got an increase in state aid of 203,000 and if I can interrupt if you guys remember in the previous years's um chapter 44 the state will always come back to us saying hey we're going to cut
006your state aid or tax levy impact because your heal you have Savings in health benefits this year there was no issue with that they say you had a huge increase in State uh in health benefits and there's no impact to your tax levy so we did not have to argue that battle where does the revenue come from the local tax levy supplies 85.8% of our budget we get 8% 88.1% from state aid we get about 1% from extraordinary Aid and that is additional state aid given to us for special education students that cost over a certain limit and then another 3.5% comes from reserves so really you have to add the 85.8 and the 3.5 to get the local the local tax burden these are the proposed Capital maintenance projects we have um the Riverview
007Annex roof Lake View parking lot repaving Riverview parking lot repaving a network upgrade Lake View gym wall repair Lake View repointing we do this every year we have to make sure that we keep the buildings watertight some univent Replacements and uh various repairs to uh Machinery repairs and Machinery places throughout the district and now this is the budget so this is what the actual budget numbers are so um our local tax for the K8 district is $37 million which is an increase of 1.7 million dollar this this um becomes a tax increase of 3% is that right de Maris 3% to the taxpayer and remember this is only for k through eight schools the uh the increase the increase to the taxpayer is $140 per year and $168 per month so the increase is $114
008you said $140 $140 the total budget is 44.5 million that would in include um the capital reserve and things like that projects and then um this is a list of where what are the different areas that the money goes to instruction of program special ed tuition and so on and that's the end of our report if anybody has any questions questions we're happy to answer them if now you can make an appointment with me uh but we do have to move forward with the approval of this budget uh we have a deadline uh with the county this month so this is um we'll be voting on this preliminary budget to be submitted to the county correct yes okay uh I'll go ahead and open it up to the board for any questions Mr K M
009I I just want to take a second and thank the administration for the work they've done I I think that as Dr Forte said it's a challenging budget I think every year is challenging I think the reality is and I think I've made this comment at every budget meeting since I've been on the board it is nearly impossible to balance a budget with 80 plus percent of your budget going to areas that increase greater than 2% when you have a 2% cap so we continue to find ways to do it we have for many years by either we fought very hard for increased state aid which has helped significantly um we fought for increasing pre-bi to be able to offset the budget for one year or a couple years um we've used things like breakage
010to try to break even meaning we've had staff that have retired and staff that replacement staff that are coming at a lower cost because they're newer into teaching um so there's some of those things that can help at certain times but you're eventually going to get to a budget year like 2025 2026 where you're running out of those options and we continue to see increases in special ed increases in students um this is obviously because of the environment we've had a larger than um average increase in our uh salary increases uh in in accordance with the contract that we signed and then we get hit with that all at the same time with a huge increase on our benefits um we've gosh we've been through a lot on benefits where we've weaved and waved ways
011to try to uh do what's right by our staff but also do what's right by the taxpayer um and we're out of options I'm going to be honest with you this is a 20% increase that we have to take on the chin and figure out a way to make work um thankfully the the state has uh granted some waivers for us to be able to make this budget work but when I say that the business office works miracles and trying to work through this budget that's an understatement in the amount of work that goes into this um Dr Forte didn't mention the massive amounts of money that were cut from what was requested from Administration and rightful requests these are requests that are for the betterment of our students right whether it's another staff member
012whether it's more educational material um they're not asking for like you know goldplated class rooms right they're asking for what's right for the students and we've had to cut that uh because we just couldn't make it work um but the uh Dr Forte and and dearis and Dr Cullis have done an incredible job in trying to squeeze every benefit for our students into this budget as much as humanly possible so I just want to say thank you to the administr for it I want to let the public know that we have looked extremely tight at this budget and really appreciate the amend tremendous work that the finance uh committee has done to try to uh squeeze every dollar out of it um but it was inevitable that you were going to get to a year
013where it got really really tough and got to a breaking point and I think this is a breaking point where many years we haven't had to take the two% or we haven't had to take the waivers we found ways to make it work um and this is a year where we've got to take every dollar we can to make sure we're doing right for our students and I appreciate the administration uh trying to find ways to make that work thank you Mike well said um I do want to thank the committee as well because I I'm sure that the committee spent hours challenging the administration to um try to do everything they can so thank you for your hard work uh don as well Andrea your work your work as well so thank you um
014I do want to thank the administration as well so that was well um that was eloquently put thank you Mike yeah real quickly I mean I I also do want to repeat my thanks to everyone who worked on the budget um as Mike very very said really well um it has it's always a tough process it's been particularly tough this year one thing Mike said I just want to repeat just for kind of emphasis is that if you look at this budget by itself you'd see that yes we're taking uh Bank cap we're taking the waivers it it looks like a very significant increase uh but again because we have to and if you look back at the previous budget years we have taken every opportunity not to take every dollar that's on the table
015if we didn't need it um so I just want to just you know I think that's just worth repeating is that every dollar is important to us every dollar is important to the administration and we're only taking it you know when we absolutely have feel we need to after a lot of thinking after a lot of of real careful analysis so again just want to say my thanks for all that um I do have some specific questions about the slide so if we can um go through some of those uh on slide number five where you talk about the increases in Revenue uh 2% tax levy Bank cap of 200,000 so the increase in Aid comes directly from the state the the first four bullet points would be part of the tax levy is that
016correct or do some of those other funds come from uh directly from the state as well that's correct those are all local taxes okay thank you so um among those four bullet points then on then if we go to slide number eight that talks about the tax impact so even though that number is above the 2% it doesn't really equate the 3% um but that's largely because there's a larger influx of Revenue coming in from other other homes or uh other sources for the district is that correct uh that is correct the tax valuation uh for the town increased $68 million and therefore uh the impact to the taxpayer is even less than last last year even though last we had less Revenue less tax increase uh this year because of the valuation of the
017homes is less to the taxpayer okay great thank you so so for the Public's sake yeah the even though we're um we are looking at a higher much higher budget um for the actual taxpayer it's not going to equate to that percentage it's going to equate to the 3.01 per. and what I also want to remind the public is that this is only for and I Demaris I think you mentioned this for the K through 8 portion anything that might be approved by the high school for their budget is not included in these numbers so if if they are seeing uh additional raises that could be coming from the high school correct and that will be yes that'll be an impact to the taxpayer as well too this these numbers are just for k through
018eight thank you so $140 per year or I believe $11 per month is the is the Denville tax payers part for k through eight so correct great thank you very much James can I just add a a something on to your question because it spurred something that I was thinking of please dearis if you don't have this can you just get it to us if if the town had not seen that how much would you say the assessed value increase was the it's increase 68 million but the home assess value is $410,000 the average home value yeah so if it hadn't increased 68 million could you do the math to figure out what the tax impact would have been without that $68 million valuation increase absolutely because what's what's interesting about that is that a
019significant portion of that is probably almost all of that is from new development whether it be commercial or residential so when just it'll be interesting to see without that what that impact would have been just out of curiosity once again it's a theoretical just calculation but if you wouldn't mind uh running through that that'd be helpful in my mind sure yell it to you tagging on of that is the uh I don't know if the town already has this or you have to wait until these new uh affordable housing you know the other the uh the cluster developments that we have there what are the rate lbls going to be when they're finished and just taking an average what we've done say the last three to five years what would our share of that be
020I mean that would give us a rough idea of what the future budget would would look like because this is uh very tight right now so it's going to be easier a little bit better or it's going to continue to be tight like we're doing now that's a question that I would not be able to answer Don yeah I I would I would wait until uh you know let's get this budget passed and everything put that put it on the back burner but um I would hope that the uh the town who take you know gets the ratables initially uh would have some type of projection because there there's an impact to the uh the infrastructure um you know God forbid the fire department the uh the EMTs Etc I mean you have that many
021new residents in the town There's impact that affects just about everything so um I would I would hope they would have what the you know an Outlook put their feet to the fire if it's off but um an idea what there a lot of new units going in how will ratables be affected it would be interesting Demaris to add on to that to see that $68 million in increased evaluation if they kind of have a breakdown on on where that's coming from doesn't have to be perfect but residential versus commercial um the vast majority of residential is probably new development right I mean there's a very small percentage in number as far as like U you know you put an addition on your home and that adds valuation so the vast majority of that has
022to be new develop um so it' be interesting to see I don't think the only thing I can think of from a commercial development perspective is I can't remember what the deal was with St Claire's it may have been an incre the the court order may have been an increased valuation year-over-year so part of that could be a St Claire's bump I don't remember what the court order was when they kind of went to court and fought their evaluation or evaluation so anyway it'd be interesting to see if they have kind of a breakdown if they do they may not but if they have an idea that seems like a bigger number than normal on a $68 million valuation increase but it is uh higher than previous years so yes I will I'll look into
023that and I'll email it to all thank you great thank you um I believe there are no further questions so we'll continue with our agenda superintendent comments uh Dr Forte if you will um the aners generation first meeting went really well we had about 40 people um somewhere around 80 in person and um 50 53 I think online so it was a really great turnout some good conversations the next meeting is coming up in uh two weeks it'll be on Tuesday night it will be let me double check this date so I don't want to put out the wrong date I believe it's the 18th right so the 18th at Riverview so Tuesday the 18th that's that's uh we're going to be going over the second part of the book um I I really want
024to say that it was it was a great experience for me I was it's the first time I've been involved in it really want thank Mrs Watkins she's she's been amazing and she had some really good questions to get the conversation started and I appreciate seeing so many people in the audience as well um I'm not sure if everybody's focused on this but Chief perner retired and we have a new Chief cap uh Chief Welch then we also have a new captain in uh Fred Jackson and our new lieutenant is Fernandez and Sergeant Williams is the new community services sergeant and sergeant btech is the new traffic Sergeant just to keep you up to date with that um BJs has opened up a new store in Whippany and they reached out to see if we
025would be interested in a fundraiser and I was pretty excited that we were able to jump on that with our foundation so there's information in the Friday folder and on the website about a fundraiser with BJs for everybody who signs up for a membership they get a discount and the a good portion of the money goes directly to the foundation so hopefully we get some uh some funds out of that and I was happy that our um our foundation president was on that right away um so here are some thoughts for the calendar adjustments I don't want to jinx us that we're gonna have snow but we usually talk about it right around now so as of now we need to cut four days off we used one we have five valy viiew graduation is
026on Tuesday June 17th so those are the facts um let me just double check Yeah Tuesday June 17th and this is what I'm thinking about right now to cut the 18th 19th and 20th off of June so that would be the Wednesday Thursday Friday we'd still have one day to cut and then we would make um Memorial Day Weekend a uh it would be off Friday Monday Tuesday right now we're off Friday and Monday but we'd add the Tuesday we looked at the Thursday before and we have some things on the calendar so the uh a day that would have less of an impact would be May 27th so that's what we're looking at doing we'll probably um put some resolution on the next agenda unless I wait till till April but we probably do
027it anyway get let people get give them the heads up but I'll word it that obviously if there is some re need for a uh an emergency closing day that we would have to adjust it back but I guess we give people the heads up as of right now and uh that's it for the superintendent's report great thank you Dr Forte assistant superintendent comments Dr culls yes njsla is right around the corner it starts for grades 3 through eight on April 29th you can see the district assessment calendar on our website to get the exact dates for your grade level sixth grade parent orientation that's May 7th at 6:30 at Valleyview and that's for parents only of our current fifth graders the bseen and heard errands law body safety program for grades K through four
028is this week March 13th kindergarten registration update Lake View are at 66 Riverview 64 Flex Zone 14 and a total registration that's a total registration of 144 the dala program registration is open invitations were sent the uh General registration is also in the Friday folder you can find that flyer um in the Friday folder the program runs from June 30th to July 24th and it's $70 per week this concludes assistant superintendent report thank you Dr gois and business administrator comments Miss Kowski I might sound like a broken record but I just want to remind those of you who has not completed the ethic form please um if you don't mind completing it and I need time to review it as well and submit it and I also want to thank the finance committee for other
029work work and help with the budget uh I know it's a lot of time and there were a lot of questions and we appreciate those questions ahead of time and so we can get you answers so thank you and really we is greatly appreciated all the work that you put in thank you Miss Kowski okay we are at the point where we open it up for public comments it is 7:57 it is now open for public comments seeing no one online and no one in the chambers we're closing the uh comment section at 7:57 next item is old business no action to me taken Miss Adelis could you uh walk us through that please no problem um at the next meeting myself or someone else we'll go through the following resolutions for the February 2025
030uh board reports treas of school mone's reports education reports for February 2025 uh minutes for February 10th and February 24th 2025 thank you and then there's new business action to be taken Mr Capello could you walk us through Personnel please I did not oh I'm sorry go ahead well I'm okay okay uh if there are no objections under Personnel I would like to move items uh one through S and these include include uh new hires resignations retirements employee leaves extra pay salary adjustments uh number one number two is approve employee for extended leave of absence number three is retroactively approve a employee for leave of absence um number four is approve uh extension of unpaid leave of absence for an employee number five is improve sorry approve a leave of absence and uh six is
031to approve Joseph I to be trained as a school bus driver and number seven is a list of uh new substitute hires I'll second thank you questions comments I do want to wish well to uh Mr culvin on his uh retirement upand cominging I know we've all uh had an opportunity to work with Patrick pretty closely on the IT department and uh he's been a great research to the district so certainly wish him well and Debbie S needs to um wish her well thank you I didn't get to my next page yes great um okay roll call please Dore yes MRIs yes Miss asterino yes Mr Cass yes Mr Anderson yes Mr Capello yes Mr Kim yes inp Dr Moore could you walk us through that please uh yeah I'd like to uh move for
032approval of the following resolutions under instruction and program under uh item number one workshops and expenses we have a which is an employee training and safety education through Ruckers and B is a physical Edge New Jersey PE Health conference item number two is to approve the dala summer program to run from 6:30 25 to 72425 Monday through Thursday 8:30 to 11:30 for Denville students currently in grades K through five the tuition is $70 per week which will include District transportation dala is a math and Ela program provided in a camp-like experience to prevent the summer slide I'll second thank you questions or comments roll call please Dr Moore yes Miss delis yes Miss asterino yes Mr Cass yes Mr Anderson yes Mr Capello yes Mr Kim yes okay I'm going to take the next one
033um I motion that we approve the following resolution be it resolved that the Denville Board of Education nominates Mr Don Cass for the Morris County School boards Association 2025 Irene M lefave excellence and boardmy award um just a side note I made some grammatical M uh error I noticed some gram grammatical mistakes so I'm going to um editorialize some of these uh statements okay whereas while a resident in Denville in the course the county of Morris Mr dcast has served a total of 18 years on the Denville Board of Education and whereas Mr Don cast has demonstrated noteworthy contributions to the education of students while serving over seven terms or specifically 18 years as a Denville Board of Education member through his unwavering dedication to enhancing educational opportunities and continual focus on improving student achievement
034for all students while within the district and whereas Mr Don Cass has exhibited exe exhibited exemplary leadership both on the board and within the community serving for 37 years as a volunteer coach and board member of the Hub soccer of Denville Inc where he demonstrates his capacity as a leader and role model through his Integrity vision and commitment to fostering an environment conducive to confidence and personal development and whereas Mr Don Cass has actively engage in school governance at the local level by regularly engaging with local political leaders to discuss the effect of legislation to the school districts whereas Mr Don Cass has shown a steadfast commitment to personal and professional development continually seeking opportunities to expand his knowledge and Leadership skills to better serve the educational Community now therefore be it resolved that the
035Denville Board of Education proudly nominates Mr Don Cass for the Morris County School boards Association 2025 Irene M lefave excellence and boardmate contributions leadership and dedication to the advancement of education and Student Success be it further resolved the Denville board of education secretary submit the nomination of Mr Don Cass and this resolution to the Morris County School boards Association for consideration for the 2025 Irene M Lafave excellence in boardmy second that thank you Mr Don uh Mr Cass this is a well-deserved nomination so if you'd like to say a few words you're more than welcome to sure I always remind you my wife says I'm a man of few words but I I appreciate and thank the board for the nomination it's labor all love to uh be here helping out the the town with
036a great education system and you all uh have contributed to that as well as uh uh the prior board members when I first joined and all our administrators they do a a great job so it's appreciated and thank you all thank you Mr Cass uh does anyone board members wish to say um some additional words as well I just want to thank Mr Kim for putting this together I think um it's a a well-deserved nomination Don and uh I just want to say thank you for everything you done for the Board of Education the town the community um there's never a time where somebody's asking you to do something that you're not saying yes automatically and uh dedicating your time day in and day out all day long for the community and specifically for this
037board of education so on behalf of the students and uh and the staff and the administration I just want to say thank you for everything you do I just want to say I hope you win I believe Michael bertran uh finally got through the Turn Style last last time and he's uh he's a great guy and uh been doing this uh here on the demo board and now at the Morris Hills Regional District so there's always hope thank you roll call please D Moore yes Miss delis yes Miss esino yes Mr Cass I'll vote for myself as long as just legal Mr Anderson I'd like to abstain on the on the milk uh fund oh sorry sorry yes thank you Mr Capello yes Mr Kim wholeheartedly yes all right um IP Mr uh Dr Moore
038wait sorry Finance page Finance I didn't turn the page pardon me Finance Mr Anderson if you will please sure under uh D Finance I'd like to move uh item number one which is and I'll read the beginning of it and then State the rest is in the agenda but let it be resolve that the tentative budget be approved for the 2025 2026 school year using the 2025 2026 school state or excuse me the state aid figures and the Secretary of to the Board of Education be authorized to submit to the executive County Superintendent for approval in accordance with njsa 18a colon 3 F-5 and 18a colon 3 f-6 general fund 44,1 34,1 184 Special Reserve uh excuse me special Revenue fund 368,000 67 and for a total of 44 M522 51 um and then uh
039I would encourage anybody who wants to know more details it's obviously listed in the agenda as well as was presented by Dr Forte earlier um Mr Anderson just a slight correction on the uh statute I think you said 3 F-5 and 3 f-6 I think it's 7 F-5 sorry my uh my eyes are getting old we need to increase the font of the uh agendas yes thank you 7f great thank you can I have a second please I'll second thank you any questions or comments roll call please Dore yes Miss idelis yes Miss asterino yes Mr Cass yes Mr Anderson yes Mr Capello yes Mr Kim yes uh looks like there is no operation so Mr Cass you're off the hook there and we'll go into new business no action to be taken Mr Capello
040if you can walk us through person outs uh certainly uh I or someone else at the next meeting will be moving items under Personnel uh we have uh at this point no uh items under number one we do have uh two three and four two and three uh are refers to revised job descriptions for the assistant to the business administrator assistant board secretary and number three is uh attach work rules for leave replacement staff we discussed these during the uh uh imp committee meeting this uh this last week and finally number four would be uh to improve Pro an employee for a leave of absence under the uh FMLA act questions or comments okay uh Dr Moore can you walk us through imp uh yes so the next meeting either myself or someone else will
041approve the following resolutions under instruction and program under uh number one is the uh approve the uh attached list of field trips and item number two is to to approve the assembly uh eyes of the wild uh which is to serve as an in-house field trip for the kindergarten classes great thank you questions yeah I'm just wondering for the eyes of the wild are they going to bring in some exotic animals or is it mostly just slides and presentations this one is just a virtual um we have done the animal ones but this particular one is is just a a virtual okay seeing no other questions um I'll walk us through the governance section uh under policy we will be going through the list of policies as seen on the agenda for second reading and
042adoption any questions or comments yes I had one on uh P 5111 eligibility of Resident non-resident students um I looked that over and they use the word kept rather than domicile and I have time to look up the definitions of what domicile Means versus is a child being kept at a house and also I didn't see any reference to uh time frames you know they got to be they x amount of days you know full-time at that house uh because you do get uh you know divorce situations where uh you know parents have custody so maybe uh you know they might stay with Dad one week in a different town Etc all those variables that could uh come up so doesn't have to be resolved but I just wonder if the language is is tight
043enough um to address those type of situations and you go back to our executive sessions we've had uh quite a few lengthy and um difficult situations where people most recent one I can remember is uh they moved out of town and they wanted to stay here in Denville and it was uh very difficult and somewhat emotional trying to deal with some of these situations so I point that out that maybe the language could be a little bit tighter and as to uh the ensuing actions Don can I give you a call tomorrow and we could maybe we could look at it together see see what just so I know exactly what you're talking about yeah Mr Cass is this in reference to policy 5111 okay so yes um I didn't say I didn't say which
044one it was I just did the number the yeah it's not that yeah and maybe it's fine I'm sure before these policies are put out for us to uh review and vote on uh various attorneys down there in Tron Etc might be legislation behind this um but there those couple of things just just popped out and I think the tighter more precise the language is the uh easier it is for the board to uh to deal with these type of of situations um because because they are they are difficult in many cases as I'm sure you remember when they come up in executive session to uh have to make them decisions and it is regulatory um we're supposed to be following the law and the regulations so um just want to make sure there's no
045margin for error or misinterpretation and just to note to the rest of the board 5111 is being Chang due to some legislation it will make a change in way we handled situations where people moved into town or people were moving out of town we allowed we allowed children to finish the school year or start the school year without tuition so um this is a change in legislation and a change in policies just so you're aware yeah Dr Forte I if I'm understanding you correctly it's due to the change in legislation that we need to update our policy to um be in what's the word I'm looking for uh compliance thank you compliance with the legislation is that what you're stating yes I mean pretty much every district has to update their policy because we all
046pretty much all use stra hesme and when this change and legislation came about um and it it I was told it was due to some um athletic advantage where a student might live in one town and go to a different school and now they're making everybody charge tuition like a an approved rate so that you can't like move to another town pay no tuition and go to their school instead of your homeschool they're trying to like get rid of some of that athletic advantage I guess so as a followup to Mr cass's Question if we wanted to make it stricter or yeah if we wanted to make it stricter than the state uh are would we be able to by um make adding some additional language to the policy or is that U sort of
047um not allowed our our policy is already more strict than the state because we have a a re-registration in sixth grade that's not part of the state policy that's that's something that this board wanted and this goes back to I think right before I started here so U the answer to your question is yes you can make it more strict if you like um but you can't remove that piece about the the tuition anymore because that's that's in that's in law great thank you so Mr gas I don't know if that sort of helps if you want to if you if you want to make a suggestion as to how you might what additional wording you might want to see but if you could just let the board know if uh if there's any special
048language you might want to see yeah I could do that T I have to pull it up and look at it again but I just you know light bu went off when I when I look looked at in terms of the language but if our what we have now is as good if not better you know I'm fine with that great thank you Mr C okay Mr Anderson oh I'm sorry are there any other questions uh Mr Anderson can you walk us through Finance please sure at the next meeting myself or someone else will move through uh we'll have a a checks list which will be item number one and then item number two will be to uh approve the donation of $11,000 from the haacon elk Club thank you uh any questions or comments
049moving on Mr Cass operations please at the next meeting we have items under transportation 1.1 the board's asking the board to approve the attached list of field trips to transport the summer plus trips for the 2025 for the Dem Recreation report at a cost of $85 per hour and item 2.1 I'm asking the board to approve the attached quote from Valley cooling LLC to repair the heating system at the riverv viw school gym office in the amount of $955 to be paid from maintenance Reserve great any questions or comments seeing none we'll go ahead to the good of the cause committee reports correspondence and discussion items and I'd like to make a correction on imp the virtual assembly there is a virtual piece and then it will be followed up with a live assembly with
050animals um and that will be in lie of their offsite field trip thank you for that I have three board highlights if you want to add to it but I have um the Board of Ed approved the preliminary budget The BJs and Foundation fundraiser and that the next meeting we have New Jersey school boards presenting on ethics and Mr Cass nomination oh yes and Mr Cass sorry about that I gota forget Mr Cass if anybody is involved with sports in the community uh the recreation department has uh updated dates for the uh Records so a certification program Etc uh coming up including the uh background checks I believe they they've done that before which is very convenient for our residents who volunteer um they can come down to the uh community room and get fingerprinted
051and get it done right here instead of having to travel someplace else great thank you for that I just want to thank um Miss Harris over at lak view for allowing me to come into her classroom and read to the fourth grade students for read AC uh read Across America day um they were they're always wonderful they really are I know it's hard but they're always really wonderful um I had a lot of wrapped students there we learned about uh women's history month and Black History Month uh just with the book that I brought and I was able to make the donation straight to her Library um which I would encourage all of you if you have books lying around and contact a teacher to to add to their Library uh I also want to
052uh make a comment regarding the uh anxiety generation book study um I want to thank Dr Forte Dr CIS uh the staff the Riverview staff and custodian and also miss Watkins I thought it was a very successful evening um I saw a number of board members there and um I thought that the comments made by the parents were were fantastic uh the involvement and the interaction is you know just what we're looking for uh you know a place where they can ask questions and to um see that they're not alone when it comes to uh seeing um experiencing the struggles that they have with their children as they're ra raising their ch um raising them and uh of course they want to do what best for for their kids but also not you know um
053put them in sit put their children in situations where they might get picked on or you know and stuff like that so I thought that the parents um got confirmation that it was okay to say no to the cell phones or you know at least have them put it away at certain times and stuff like that so I'm I look forward to the next couple meetings and I I hope that they will um be as engaging as well so all right uh if there are no other comments for the good of cause it is 8:20 p.m. I will open it up for the second time for public comments seeing no one in the chambers and no one online we'll close it at 8:21 p.m. uh is will there be a need for another executive session
054no there is not okay so J oh yes second y fantastic thank you very much all in favor I any Nays extensions all right we are now adjourned at 8:21 thank you