001uh Mr Smith on Thursday January 9th 2025 notice of this meeting was emailed to the press in the mainland Journal notice was also delivered that day to the eggh haror Township Clerk and post on bulleon board in township hall RW call please Mr buers Mrs Gilbert Floyd here Mr Ireland here Mr Price Mr Price here Mr sepy here Mrs Sullivan Mrs salagi here miss Hyman here and Mr delar here good evening everyone and welcome to the a carpa Township Board of Education meeting for February to 2025 as you can see we have a couple of our members who are with us virtually and we're glad to have them with us tonight so just so you know that's what's going on there with the uh the uh with Mrs Gilbert Floyd over there as is controlling
002the two members at this time please let uh stand for our flag salute and please remain standing for a moment of silence from Mrs Alva Iverson Mrs Iverson was a longtime teacher in our district uh she was actually one of the original people who started our GT gifted a talent program many years ago she was beloved by everybody she met children uh parents and fellow teachers and I was very sad to hear that news this week thank thank you ready salute I pledge alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you very much we need a motion for minutes motion 4.1 through 4 4.4 you what your motion and a second second any
003discussion roll call please Mr buyers Mrs Gilbert Floyd yes Mr Ireland yes Mr Price I'm sorry can you just repeat one of my um what what are we voting on I missed that part the minutes yes yes I I vote Yes for the minutes Mr sepy yes Mrs salagi yes Miss hman yes and Mr delar yes at this time we have our superintendent report Dr guo okay good good evening everyone and Welcome to our February meeting um appropriate a pair of gloves could be needed on a cold night like this but hopefully things will warm up after this week apparently we're not getting the snow that we all you all hoop for um so that's that's a great thing so anyway um as we do each and every month they go over the student learning
004goals with the Board of Education and present to them what's going on in the district we have spelling bees going on in the Miller school and in the the um middle schools and kids are excelling in those areas and they get to compete further academic fair for our middle school students third marking period is where we are at this time we're over the hump so it should get warmer and we'll be coasting down into June real quick and access testing window is opening on February 26th I forgot congratulations to Milana shco who is our LPGA golf ticket design winner to represent a Harbor Township so kudos to her great job here's some saved the dates still under um academic achievement our kids are working hard with their teachers and a series of steam events will
005be offered to EHT middle middle school students that'll be on March 13th and April 10th and then Fernwood career day will be March 12th so save those dates under climate and culture Black History Month celebrations and MLK projects have been going on uh throughout the month with presentations and I have some more on that in a little bit students of the the week Valentine's Day President's Day we're talking about all those things Chinese New Year National School counseling week we recognize our counselors in all of our schools and its World kindness week with Black History Month um our students are studying the influential African-American and their bio their biographies we have lessons we have activities daily quotes that are shared and presentations play school had great presentation uh just last week um and I received
006information and feedback at whenever well students enjoyed it teachers enjoyed it and it was all around good day Mr Bell um arranged that and presented that with um to the students Community Partnerships read Across America begins February 24th 28th board members and community members will participate in read Across America and the New Jersey school board's 8th grade dialogue will be March 20th we'll have two middle school students that will sit on that panel be Across America Atlanticare career and summer um intensive um support is in place Talent has begun at bargain town and Applebees so be we thank them for having a fundraiser or hosting a fundraiser for us love the bus month uh the Department of Education has an initiative out and our students here are showing how much they love their bus drivers
007and transportation system there's cards and um gifts that they gave our bus drivers and that was celebrated on February 12th we weren't here that day so the next day um and celebrations continued our friendly reminders for March spring Athletics for middle school and high schools if you have students that are want to be involved the physicals and signups are due by March 1st registration for preschool March 3rd to the 3th so all parents who interested in registering their child please do so March 3rd the 30th we get a lot of um you know families that want to be involved and you know then there's that waiting list so get in while you can strategic plan we will Embark a new strategic plan process that will begin March 25th at the high school in the lower
008C between six and eight all are encourage to attend students parents stakeholders speaking of stakeholders we'll have a stakeholder survey that will be released on March 1st that will go to students parents uh faculty staff stakeholders in a Harbor Township ourl Cape diverse education job fair will be hosted on March 7th between 1 and 3:30 p.m. at high school and just release now as our uh musical at the high school March 14th and 16th All Shook Up which is um inspired by the songs and life of Elvis Presley and moving on to our soaring Stars we'll come on up let's see we'll have facilities I don't know if Mr Curtis moo is here but John Rose is being honored um transportation Michelle's here come on up so Mary Thompson is our soaring star in the
009transportation area Michelle is going to speak a little bit about her good evening everyone our soaring star this this time around is Mrs Mary Thompson um Mary has been with us for like 18 years or so and during that time we've asked a lot of Mary we've made a lot of changes to her she's made a lot of compromises and she's been a true team player and not only that she has an impeccable attendance record which is like my pet peeve so she's like my so um we're very very lucky to have her and I wish I had a dozen more just like her congratulations Mary you recognized tonight for your dedication hardwork and outstanding contributions to our school district so thank you very much congratulations right very and here's a t-shirt wear Pride all
010right I got it okay Dining Services Mr Beck not here today he not here tonight you want to say a few words real quick since you came tonight might as well I'm here for all of you hi good evening everyone um uh this month's uh recognition goes to so uh suup Gallo uh so is uh works at the Swift school she's been there for 3 years um and there's really no one better that takes care of the little ones over at that school she does a fantastic job she always has a smile on her face and and I know when uh when I see her that uh Swift school's in good hands so um and then uh one last thing it's very important it's important to me and very important to her is that she
011just became a US citizen so um they had a big party for her and you know is a very proud American now so yeah it's great great stuff so thank you everybody thank you okay we lot to present tonight so I'm cruising all right here's the visual for what's going on in the month of January [Music] February may you have aici and CA [Music] may you have auspiciousness and causes of success may you have the confidence to always do your best may you take no effort in you're being generous sharing what you can nothing more nothing less may you know the meaning of the word happiness may you always lead from the beating in your chest may you be be treated like an esteemed guest May you get to rest may you catch your breath
012May the best of your today be the worst of your tomorrows W I may The Road Less pave be the road that you [Music] follow well here's to the hearts that you going to break here's to the lies that you're going to change here's to the infinite possible ways to love you I want you to have it here the good times we going to have you don't need money you got PR pass here's to the fact that I'll be sad without you I want you to have it all I want you to have it all I want you to have it I want you to have it may you be as fascinating as a slap bracelet may you keep the chaos in the clut off your desk may you have unquestionable health and L stress
013having no possessions though immeasurable wealth may you get a gold star on your next test may your educated guesses always be correct and may you win prizes shining like diamonds may you really own it each moment to the next or May the best of your today be the worst of your tomorrows I may The Road Less PVE be the road that you follow W well here to the hearts that you going to break here's to the lives that you're going to change here to the infinite possible ways to love you I want you to have it here's to the good times we going to have you don't need money got PR here's to the fact that I'll be sad without you I want you to have it all I want you thank you again Alan
014for capturing all those great moments the wonderful things that go on in the a Harbor Township School District where anyway now it's time for the annual state of the school presentation um that I do as superintendent twice a year one Midway one at the end but it's real important this time of the year because the board is with us in this budgeting process and in order order to understand the full budgeting process it's important that data and current updates are shared with the board what's going on in District so it helps them budget so helps them with the budgeting process so the Board of Education receives a copy of this I also encourage the Board of Education to look at last year's state of the school and the public as well which is posted on
015our website under the superintendent's um area so this is the new state of the school for 20242 this is where we are okay eight campuses 11 buildings cover 64 square miles with with our transportation system we're very proud of our buildings they're beautiful buildings they're clean buildings they're fil filled with great people the buildings are getting old our community we have a great community and what makes the community great is what we have to understand and know that our businesses our shopping or restaurants it's family oriented Community there's neighborhoods there's Recreation out activities we have quick access to Medical Care to tourism right across the bridges there's a low crime rate our schools and our recreation department works well together and our school and town has Pride community in the school district we talk about
016the importance of a partnership but we want to provide learning opportunities for all children we work to engage parents and businesses into students education to build positive relationships we have good schools to improve prop property value it's important to know if you live here your property value goes up and your schools are good and you have a great School District here educated children become educated adults and educated children with Community Pride will give back to their community and many many of our graduates have come back to serve as employees of the a haror Township School District teachers bus drivers cafeteria folks administrators okay we have to be proud of that you can't lose sight of what we have where we we are all students will learn and I always say C capital A L L
017because it's important that all of us together educate each and every child every single day every child deserves fair and viable access to our viable curriculum exposure to rigor and relevance and opportunity for their maximal potential and we begin in September by building relationships with our students so so important so our system is to improve student achievement we're here to improve student achievement and these six points something when I started um to make sure that we had in place when I became superintendent to make sure we have a vision a mission that strategic plan that I'm proud to say that the last two that have been uh in place have been met organizational structure account accountability systems in place and evaluation of what we do so I'll go through them quickly vision is to be
018to be that Premier School District where all students experience success that's a tough job our teachers work hard each and every day make sure that students experience success sometimes it doesn't happen as quickly as we want but we have to work we have to work hard at it we have to change maybe change the game plan a little bit but we work each and every day for their success and our mission you've heard it Embrace engage educate you all should know what it means if you don't we're embracing we're building relationships when we engage our students it has to be relevant learning experiences and we know and we can say they're relevant because we built relationships we know who our students are who our parents are and what they need then we educate we Implement
019rigor we imp Implement relevant learning experiences Real World Learning experiences and I'll tell you more about them as as we share through the district along with our mission statement this year we expanded a little bit and went a little bit deeper we shared that our overall um actions would be around our sore program where in each and every classroom bus cafeteria laboratory hallway that our sore Foundation is present for our students it's it's about being safe it's about being responsible and then we Branch off the EHT or mtss multier systems of support our character education and then our say no to bullying initiative this year so this was us this year um you know and here we are halfway point you know and we assess and we evaluate we get to AIC strategic plan which
020is a component of um this foundation and strategic plan is very important because it drives what we need to do the community the stakeholders came together we met in the room and we talked about what our needs are in our school district and we put it down on paper the board approved it and then it goes into action as superintendent I oversee that I make sure that the Strategic plan the components are met that they're enforced by my administrative team so here we are at the end of the second strategic plan that that we achieved and on March 25th We Begin Again what are the needs what do we need to do what do our kids need to be successful as we go further and further into the future and the educational landscape is changing
021our organizational structure again I mentioned the importance of relationship building we're here to learn we're here to collaborate we're here to look at results we have professional learning communities that we've all been trained in as as administrators and teachers again it's important that we build relationships we looking we're looking at student learning we're collaborating to talk about what's going on what's going right what's not going right in in a classroom uh in a course in a level looking at the results the data that we collect the data that the teachers collect and input the data that the teachers look at and review and then adjust so it's continuous and then the accountability our administrators particular supervisor submit three to fiveyear content area plans school-based plans we have our principal to look at those plans and
022then we implement the educational plans for student achievement we observe the implementation and the utilizations of the plans and then we evaluate all right so evaluations are going on making sure that we're holding people accountable for the plans that they put in place in the policies and regulations of our school district then we evaluate we have regular interval updates our teachers are constantly looking at data administrators looking at data we have administrators meetings where we discuss data but whether it's data impation of a program or an idea or a situation that's going on in the district we're always assessing we're always reflecting we're always revisiting what's going on so I want to assure that the board that that process is in place it's ongoing each and every day um and it's it's very important to
023me that we file that so Personnel Board there's some numbers here um I'm not going to read each and every one but this gives you an updated on um data on each of our areas and a nice pie chart there so most of our pie chart is certified staff 54.4% Personnel current enrollment there's three slides here to follow current enrollment here uh our preschool is on the left we have 653 students in our preschool program over on the right is our elementary program K to 5 with 286 elementary students at the secondary level middle schools High School Eagle Academy 4,19 students secondary level here's our total en enrollment 7,471 we're up a few from last year and budgetarily budget wise egg haror Township Board of Education is responsible for 7,916 students in the budget that
024you're working on now so that includes your choice students uh charter school nonpublic and state facilities okay just so you understand 7,471 in the building outside the building our demographics to the left is Atlanta County demographics that's as of July 2023 it's the most recent we can get but here we are in February 2025 at a population of 7,463 average class size it's pretty good I know administrators in other districts that's pretty good this stat is based on uh home rooms in grades uh prek to 5 and based on English classes grades 6 through 12 speaking of numbers of kids just give you an idea the class of 2024 had 576 graduates and that's about what we average a graduating between 500 575 or so each and every year every once in a while we'll
025get a 600 but that's about the number we graduate and we're very proud of our classes each and every year this year $18.4 million in scholarships with the class of 2024 District services this is the title money and ml money that we serve these numbers of students world of special education we have 1,517 students that are classified 129 for speech only we have 49 students placed outside the districts and we accommodate 18 super seniors students that go to school with us until they're 21 Athletics and activities we offer a great great opportunities for our students we have 30 high school sports 58 high school teams and there's about 1100 students at the high school participating that's about half of the high school participating in sports uh 24 Middle School sports and about 606 middle school
026students participating activities just as high 28 high school activities 963 students participating 27 activities at Alder and Fernwood and the newly Unified sports at the high school and the middle schools great thing when kids are involved beyond the classroom Talons is our before and after school program um our students enrolled we have 467 this year so that is a great service that we're able to provide for our families before and after school care um and those numbers are up 389 as we have expanded spaces with the new Bargain Town School accommodating 71 new students transportation we have 77 drivers we could use more drivers anybody interested we take applications every second of the day 19 bus AIDS three Subs on on staff um 10 bus Gage staff and the six office staff and I will
027tell you now that office staff is driving buses daily operations are 77 runs and 1.3 million miles per year that we cover board there's a fuel cost of 7 10,000 on diesel currently at 325 a gallon food services up on the right that's a new new data for us 50% free and reduced that's new Staffing of 68 employees 10 substitutes daily operations lots of food served between breakfasts lunches um but proud to say we have a 100% balanced budget no cost to the taxpayers facility 81 custodians and 12 maintenance mechanics seven leads eight ground crew six custodial coordinators and six office staff they oversee 11 they take care of 11 school buildings and seven ancy buildings this this this uh this data right here 111 years old yet your oldest building is Eagle Academy our
028baby building in more ways than one has just turned 18 so it's now an adult um but I I can remember moving in that building when was brand new as assistant superintendent and um that'll tell you a lot about me too Information Technology Our IT department 13,000 Chromebooks and workstations in the school district and these are all the areas that they cover with a pretty slim staff if you will so they do great jobs they're always out our service you know have to ask twice they're always here to help serve our kids serve our teachers serve our administrators but here's all the areas that they oversee and that is growing as technology advances um they're advancing as well the lots for them to do and security new to district for maybe the last six seven
029years but we're another area that's growing 16 unarmed guards 13 armed guards and three armed class 3 officers and here's the areas that they cover basically protecting us keeping us safe and that's a good feeling a real good feeling because sometimes we have to make alternate plans um and they're there to help us plan they're there to help us you know make sure that things the things are followed through and that people are safe whether it's a drill situation um a change of plans an evacuation um fire drill they're always there to help and uh the director uh Mr Paige is here and he comes us with law enforcement experience and um appreciate what he does all right I need water so I'm going to turn actually it's been planned District learning goals uh Miss
030M's going to cover all right so I'm going to Breeze through these District learning goals um as Dr gucho mentioned you can see last year's where we talk about what we accomplish and what we need to work on this presentation is focusing on the areas that said we needed to work on this year so under improved student achievement uh Literacy for all social emotional learning needs and continuous stream education uh we have really embraced um the multi-tier system of support that the state of New Jersey has put out for us but what's nice about it is that it's allowed us to really focus on student growth and not just comparing to grade level expectations but really being able to individualize instruction for our students and really be able to focus in on what individual students
031need um adding more resources in from um you know programs that allow us to look at student reading levels in a different way in our content areas to being able to support our little students we brought in a new um literacy program in ourc 3 and really just trying to make sure that our students are getting That explicit instruction that they need in a way that allows us to differentiate for them broken no I did that uh character education andal um as Dr guo said earlier the focus this year was really to rejuvenate um our different programs and make sure that we are adding enough resources for our buildings and our students and Families to reinforce the the social emotional learning that our students need we added a lot of school Partners um we have
032instituted sore as our foundation and really spent the first eight weeks of school this year focusing on that we've had Spirit weeks and pep rallies and a lot of professional development and committee meetings and meetings with our Community Partners to make sure they we're providing the resources that not only our students need but that our families need as well The Innovation team really took off um last year and into this year that team is moving at light speed to make sure that we are keeping up with all of the new technology with AI uh we had the privilege of going to a conference where we really felt like everyone was talking about doing things that we had already done through our interation team so everyone was talking about brisk we have it everyone was talking
033about ay we have it and now our state-ofthe-art Esports Arena um is in those final phases and we're able to introduce new curriculum and new courses for our students around that really exciting not only sport but it is a career path and a way for students to really be engaged in learning goal number two climate and culture um here we really focused in on Renaissance this year we had a bunch of our administrators and staff go to the conference in July they came back and on our opening days we had a pep rally with our entire staff and force and there you can see Mrs White Davenport won the spirit stick in the beginning of the year um but the idea was to really rejuvenate that positive behavior um method and really make sure that
034we were recognizing and rewarding the behaviors that we want to see and to support the climate and culture in our buildings with that we also Al aligned our character education to make sure districtwide we had this um continuity and that everyone was looking at the same themes for each month this month is the month of kindness obviously the week of kindness and so we're able to really focus on that and a lot of our buildings have embraced these topics and have done great projects and events with their students and staff during these months celebrating our diversity this is really important as you saw in our demographics and as we know we are a very diverse um school district and we have instituted our Equity committees probably two or three years ago we have our subcommittees
035and we are in our third cohort of having a foundational Equity committee where we have about 30 teachers and staff members from the district that come in get trained um to go back into the buildings and to make sure that we're spreading those messages and words to make sure that we are hitting all of those areas for our staff and our students and our community we also um have celebrations we celebrated our 25th anniversary of Hispano o blanes this year and we continue to make sure that we're being inclusive with all of those events professional development um we have our four professional development days we also have half days throughout the year to make sure that our staff is receiving professional development and all the things that I just listed um it's a lot there's
036a lot of work that's being done we had um guest speakers and keynote speakers this year we have another one lined up for March um hopefully it's helping hit home on all these different topics and helping us really move forward with the Strategic plan and all of our goals for the future I'm going to pass it over to Mr West feel like I'm on team time thank you Miss Moss so good evening everyone I have goal three of our strategic plan which is expanding Community Partnerships we're very proud of our relationships that we have with our Community Partners and with those relationships all we try to do is uh support our children provide opportunities for them so without them uh we wouldn't be able to expand and cultivate relationships and support our kids as far
037as the pride festival it'll be in September again uh last year September 21st we're looking to change the name and I think eaglefest has a really cool uh rhyme to it uh so we're going to have a meeting in upcoming weeks to start to set up and get ready for next fall it's a great day 100 table set up food trucks activities the band is playing athletic events uh throughout the day uh last fall was beautiful weather and we'll hope for the same this fall um so we're looking forward uh to getting that ball rolling and starting to get eaglefest up and running as far as our Compu Community Partnerships you see the list there we're proud of our relationships with them uh they've been great Through The Years uh we have continuous meetings uh
038with all our partners uh they always provide resources for our kids uh we Foster and grow those relationships and at the end of the day you know it's all about student achievement and that that's our focus and they provide a lot of support and uh we're so proud that we have them as partners and we're looking forward to building on our relationship building on our partnership and making things better for our students apprenticeship and I'm you know to say I'm I'm I'm biased here but from a public school to offer all these things for our students it's pretty impressive airport management manufacturing Marine Electronics Marine maintenance Marine manufacturing solar construction welding uh New Jersey manufacturing uh extensive program um and there's a plethora of more Circ circuitary tools and measurement HVAC Wastewater management Transportation the
039union partners with Engineers Carpenters Pipe Fitters Steel Workers just impressive stuff theatrical stage employees local 77 can't beat it they provide all these opportunities for our kids it's impressive you know and we create an environment where we want everyone to find their Niche right not everyone's a college student but you know I know a lot of people are making a ton of money in the trades um I just had a plumber come to my house and my jaw drop to the floor so uh I might have picked the wrong uh field but uh with that being said they're needed um they're in demand and uh like I said we want to provide as many opportunities for our kids some more apprenticeship opportunities and Dr Graham and her staff do an excellent job in her CTE
040program a patient care technician medical assistant EMT training lifeguard and CPR we have everything for everyone grants we couldn't do it without it we apply for these grants uh on a yearly basis through Atlanticare Pace Aspire um a high impact tutoring Grant climate change education AP African-American history they provide us with textbooks uh resource Essentials learning opportunities student enrichments field trips enhancing our curriculum and programs um and at the end of the day providing opportunities for us for to raise student achievement and provide relevant experiences for our kids so for that forever grateful for our grants and our community Partnerships I am going to turn it over back to Dr Gro to talk about changes made and sustainability I'm going to stay right here um because I only have two slides so call me lazy
041but it's Lee anyway changes made and sustained and you know I I I debated about leaving this in or not but but I know there's new folks uh new stakeholders new board members and um I just want them to realize over the last s years or so the changes that have been made here in the school district district and sustained so the Swift slay ball um schools became a complex um we have a delayed opening process that we can now participate in the county delayed openings where in the past we never could um thank you to Transportation who was able to work with me and get that in place um data Tools in place mtss Middle School electives High School concentrations um the talons program the Aspire Program full day prek full day kindergarten we
042never had that prek expansion we're experienced that now thank thanks to the grant um Esports Arena apprenticeship programs Greenhouse Outdoor Classroom activities 101 technology and the following committees there so um we're proud of what we have implemented you know it's good to implement something but to be able to sustain it is uh just as important so and I I turn to the board and I thank them for their support and their knowledge of U the importance of uh these items right here so you know no one should be ever be satisfied um the old coach of me says there's always work to do um you always got to be great try to be great each and every day and work hard um to improve work hard to be the best and that's what we're doing
043so we want more Partnerships we want we're going to be looking for Grants and funding opportunities to assist us we we will be meeting with our business partners and have Community visits we have a a meeting scheduled in the next month or so uh with more business partners connections with alumni our Hall of Fame uh committee is is um going to meet soon AI research and implementation very very important important to know uh the ins and outs of it in the dos and does important to educate our our students about the dangers of it um and educate our our teachers about the good things that could be used as well to educate the kids uh celebrating our diversity professional development parent workshops on and on and on um so we're looking at always improving there's
044always something new uh to do uh but we have work to do we're we're I'm not satisfied all right so I promise you that we will um work to be the best and with that our best business administrator Mr Dan Smith is going to talk to us about the next stage of budgeting all right thank you so the next couple slides are just really a recap from last meeting uh but we included it because it's important information to go over as we work on the budget uh this is just our general fund tax levy for The Last 5 Years so uh we just want to portray what the board's goal has been uh to keep that tax increase as low as possible uh the two increases that you see in 23 24 and 2425 were
045just due to ratables so we didn't increase uh taxes for the average taxpayer the value of the township went up so it increased tax revenue uh for the district uh so this side slide is our long-term debt so last meeting we started talking about uh the a possible referendum uh through the state of the schools you heard some information about the age of our schools and some things that that we're working on uh so if you look at fiscal year 27 so we have some existing debt that comes offline so that would be our Target year to acquire new debt uh so that would kind of coincide with like a December 25 referendum vote so that's what we're working on right now uh the goal is to be tax neutral or have a tax decrease
046so tax neutral would be where tax tax rate stays the same for The Debt Service uh tax decrease obviously would it would go down uh so that's our our planning as we go through that and as we go through that process we'll share more information with the board uh all that will lead up to about to sometime in the fall we'll start doing public presentations on that uh so it's a long process that like I said we've already begun uh and we'll wrap that up in the fall uh and then for uh next year tax rates uh so we received our rable information from the township uh and these are kind of three scenarios that we're looking at so scenario one is a flat rate which means we don't do anything uh ratables did go
047up slightly so it would generate $174,000 in new Revenue uh for next year's budget uh if we say tax neutral because our debt service tax rate is going down a little so if we look at them both and try to zero out get to zero uh it's about $300,000 in new revenue for the district uh and if we go with a 2% tax rate tax increase it's about 1.6 million uh there's there's different uh escalators at 2% the district could exceed 2% uh but right now uh as we're going through the budgeting process these are the three scenarios that we're looking at uh so when we present the budget on the preliminary Budget on March 18th uh one of these three is is what will be presented uh on that night okay well thank you
048thanks to the board education my staff over the last months uh putting this together Dr Mullen um principals administrators faculty and staff who all contributed to um all the great things that we do so now we're going to go to a preview right so this will be a real quick uh budget presentation on Appropriations uh then we'll get to our part two of three of our video we have our principles uh in attendance tonight so tonight you'll see their their portion uh of the video uh so we'll look at the budget calendar some Appropriations uh our video will cover our schools our athletic department and Eagle Academy and then we'll talk about next steps uh so for our statutory dates we're still online on February 27th to receive our state aid notice uh we did
049receive some information today from the state uh that if districts are going to have a decrease in state aid it will not be more than 3% uh So based on our um enrollment kind of staying level and our weighted enrollment going up uh we should be in in good shape to at least break even that's that's our our planning uh in our budget we have our state aid as as staying um flat March 20th our preliminary budget will be due to the county office so we'll ask you to approve that on March 18th and then sometime at the end of April we'll have our public hearing where where you'll approve the final version of the 2526 budget uh so we've done our board presentations uh in January February March uh we've had some discussion uh
050We've really gotten into it in the finance committee last month and we'll have do that again in March to go into more detail on the budget so far our estimated Appropriations uh so we asked every school and Department to reduce their budget by 8% um so it's it you know 8% doesn't sound like a lot but it really is when you kind of break down each department in each building and have them look at 8% uh so it's been uh a tough process so far but our goal is to maintain all of our programs and services that we currently offer and we're just trying to do it more efficiently um it it's it's been a a good exercise I think for everyone uh you know we've looked at scenarios that we haven't looked at in
051a few years uh and we're looking to kind of get to a budget correction stage so if we recall uh several years ago uh before S2 went into effect the district was was doing a lot with a little as far as you if we look at Staffing for example uh we got that infusion of new state aid uh the district was able to increase Appropriations increase Staffing maybe a little too much now we're just looking to kind of get back down to a reasonable amount uh and kind of auto correct where we should be our goal is to again not cut any programs or Services just do what we're currently doing more efficiently that's been our message to everyone we've had our individual budget meetings um you know it's it's going good so far uh
052but ultimately we won't really have a full picture until February 27th uh so we just wanted to kind of pinpoint tonight that our salaries and benefits are about 82% of the budget so uh in this $95 million that includes all staff comp compensation so normal salaries longevity uh stiens any any compensation that any staff member receives is in that $95 million uh and our benefits of 32.7 million again that's any benefit um allocated to staff could be health benefits FICA workers comp uh tuition and so on uh other three big areas that we're looking at uh tuition so we have General Ed tuition which has really increased drastically in the last few years uh and also our out of District special education tuition and this really is uh a big factor for us this year
053uh because we're budgeting less idea funding so normally the district would use Almost 100% of our Ida funding to fund out of District tuition uh that Revenue may go down which means those expenses that normally reside in Ida have to move over to the general fund so it's it's a new expense that we we've had it's just been outside of the general fund so it's been a kind of a luxury that we've had so we're again worst case scenario where if that funding goes down those expenses have to go into the general fund uh then as far as insurance uh what we're being told is a minimum 6% increase uh we won't have that number until April uh after we submit the plary budget so again the timing really isn't lining up great uh but
054that's what we're working with so and you can see our tuition amount about 4.5 million uh utilities 2.8 and insurance 2.8 uh and really these five areas are about 89% of the general fund budget so when we look at these areas uh you know utilities and insurance we really don't have much control over utilities we are in the process of completing our esip program uh that's supposed to save us money in utilities uh but then that kind of brings us back to we have aging equipment that might not be the most efficient uh and things like that so we're we're kind of at a break even with utilities uh but really the only area that we have some wiggle room is salary and benefits um you know it's not an area that's uh a nice
055area to talk about uh but it's something that we have to look at as we work on next year's budget uh so right now we're going to switch over to our part uh two of three uh budget presentation see again after the video our principls are in attendance so if you have any questions for them we can ask at that time hello I'm John Tolen director of early childhood education for the 25 26 school year we're looking to maintain our size of the preschool program which is currently serving of just over 700 preschool students spread out over 49 classrooms we are looking to renovate space at the dport complex to add additional preschool classrooms there and we've also revamped our perk process to improve our supports for both our students and our teachers so budget
056highlights are we are looking to add permanent playground equipment to bargain toown school and we're also looking to add a secretary to the bargain toown location hello my name is Mrs Rachel cenang and I'm the principal at the Swift Sall complex previously the MD program for grades K through 3 was housed at the Davenport complex but this year seven classes of MD students moved to their home school at the Swift Sall complex the program has been a welcome addition to our school Community we are happy that these students can be at the same school as their siblings and neighborhood peers the addition of anal interventionist position at the complex has been tremendously helpful to our teachers and students this year our K through3 students have begun using the Hagerty program for ELA this program has
057provided an engaging and consistent way for our teachers to teach phonics instruction the program is interactive and uses an easy to follow sequence teachers are already seeing improvements in students ability to read and spell the feedback on the program has been very positive POS and we are grateful to have this addition to our curriculum our school has a 1:1 ratio for Chromebooks in grades 1 through 3 while students are in their home rooms our Justin's Renaissance program is very strong our program recognizes student achievement both weekly and monthly celebrates our staff and shows them how appreciated they are for the hard work they do Renaissance also holds schoolwide events to promote school spirit this program is the root of our positive climate and culture and we hope to to continue growing and trying new initiatives
058hi my name is Mrs latia White and I'm the principal at the CJ Davenport School complex I'm so excited to tell you some of the highlights of the Davenport School complex including student achievement in Seal we have new technology for our students and our teachers we purch as bright link devices iPads updated Chromebook carts also with our district initiative we're focusing on social and emotional learning so teachers were provided with materials for calming Corners andal related materials and we also focus on sore clubs and activities is something else that we have at Davenport we have our art Club our wellness club and computer club which is no cost to the district and it's all run during the school day we have our Davenport honors choir who's very active not only at school but also in
059the community with the national anthem project and attending other outside events and of course we have our Steam weat for students in the building and we also partner with the high school to receive the Egg Harbor Township stem bus which is always awesome for the students to take part in some of our building beautification and upgrades include freshly painted hallways and floors are a new gymnasium I call it state-ofthe-art the students love it new playgrounds nearby both buildings and new bathroom stall doors some family and Community Partnerships we have is a partnership with Wawa our career day events we have outside companies coming in including Atlantic care physicians also police department at Harbor Township ship the fire department and several other organizations including even Steven cookies from Margie the Cardiff Volunteer Fire Company comes to
060Davenport every year to teach students about fire safety and what to do in an event of a fire we have our Atlantic care and effective School solution partnership who is at the building providing services to the students daily and of course our annual parent engagement night where all the parents come out to learn about all that Davenport has to offer in the programs we have and lastly of course staff support we want to make sure that our teachers are in the newest so they have new desk chairs new carpets for the classrooms for morning meetings with the students and seal materials for both staff and students hi my name is Jim Battersby and I am the principal of the Dr Joan D Miller School the first program I would like to highlight is our win
061period win stands for what individuals need the win period is designed to provide the students an opportunity to receive additional instruction in areas such as technology steam health library tier 2 and three interventions as well as qu choir orchestra and band lessons the benefit of the wi period is that it allows the students to receive these opportunities without the interruption of the regular academic time in math and Ela the first budget highlight I have is in the area of Crisis management we are in need of a lockdown notification system for high traffic areas such as the gymnasium and cafeteria the second program I would like to highlight is our steam classes our steam classes are up and running and focus on science technology engineering art and math the main focus is providing the students the
062opportunity to gain skills in areas such as coding Robotics and Aviation the second budget highlight I would like to share is our whiteboard tables which are replacing standard desk and math classes the Whiteboard tables have been a success as they are more engaging for students and allow the teachers to have quick assessment of student skills and understanding the third and final program I would like to highlight is Renaissance which is composed of students and staff that support the climate and culture through the activities that we are going on in our school the activities that we routinely have are students of the month positive behavior referrals as well as different celebrations and assemblies during the school [Music] year hi my name is Miss Tatiana Cunningham and I the principal of Alder Avenue Middle School some of
063the exciting things going on at Alder Avenue Middle School for this year have been a upgrades to the LGI with audio and video our rise Vision equipped TVs throughout our building let students know what's going on on a daily basis our upgrades to our gymnasium with new flooring and padding our Outdoor Classroom is fully equipped for students to have lessons outside our picnic area in the courtyard allows our students to have lunch on beautiful sunny days we have continued our celebrations with student achievement our convocation and focus 40 times helps our students both academically and social emotional our positive sore referrals are continu and strong and our wingmen are visiting our convocation classes our budget highlights for this year include new carpeting for the LGI new carpet and flooring in our library and flooring for
064our [Music] cafeteria hello my name is Frank lantor and I'm the principal of Fernwood Avenue Middle School some program highlights that we'd like to talk about here at Firwood this year would be Focus 40 time which is a new academic support time that we've built into convocation in the mornings where students have access to all their teachers where they can work on projects homework and other tests and quizzes they want to study for we also have effective School Solutions this year which offers mental health support and social emotional support to our students which we're really excited about and then we also have our equal Achievers program that we've started to recognize students that are doing well and improving and developing academically socially with their behavior with their academics and with their attendance so not only
065achieving but also showing Improvement and growth for our budget highlights we're excited that we will have some new carpeting being put down in the auditorium and also some new carpeting being put down in the [Music] library hi my name is Jackie karuno and I'm the principal of a Cara Township High [Music] School aara Township High School has undergone a number of exciting updates and benefits to enhance both its physical space and student programs recently the school beautified its exterior with Spirit wraps and upgraded the media center with new furniture shelving and seating creating a more inviting space for learning the school also developed a state-of-the-arts Esports Arena adding a modern Dimension to its extracurricular offerings in addition with its commitment to student well-being the school introduced a new Social and emotional program including Stars cares
066and Pauls which helps support students emotional and social growth the auditorium also received significant upgrades including new audio lighting and video systems ensuring a better experience for both performances and events technology has been a big focus with the addition of new computer labs Chromebook support and Technology classrooms like box leg technology the school also installed rise Visions TVs around the buildings providing realtime information to students and staff we were requesting the completion of the greenhouse new cafeteria stanion tables ID scanners foral and academic periods and the removal of old Lockers in terms of culture the school celebrated student achievements through various initiative including freshman orientation and openhouse for middle school students the Administration has also worked to reduce personal cell use during an instructional time reinforcing the focus on learning these efforts reflect Egg Harbor
067Township High School's dedication to improving both physical and educational environment for its students and staff [Music] hello everyone I'm Kevin rutage director of Athletics and activities uh athletic department is in great shape right now we're in the process of updating several aspects of our facilities including our historic records our back stop for our baseball and of course our scoreboards that are in our gymnasium softball and turf Stadium uh going forward we're going to continue to replace outdated equipment throughout both our middle schools and our high schools including soccer field locky goals and Lacrosse goals and as well as storage equipment that is both efficient and organizationally functional for our teams and coaches this also includes portable bleachers to make sure that we can ly move our our equipment around place to place and and facilitate
068it best for our parents and our teams hi I'm Dr Lindsay selski the director of alternative education at Eagle Academy I'm happy to share some program highlights and budget highlights from Eco Academy um we have a lot of great things going on on at Eagle Academy and one of our biggest resources is really our school economy which drives the whole program students are able to earn points and a point system through their progress participation behavior and how they act on a daily basis each student has their own bank account which they earn points through the week they also earn points for participation in clubs and in work program and at the end of the week they all get to shop in our school store store so it's a very big driving motivation to help all
069students participate overall in the school so basically this is marrying financial literacy along with behavior management and to be able to acquire the most points of course you're working really hard and you are having great attendance so there are some days at Eagle Academy that everyone is at school also in our program over the last year we have acquired twice the amount of students as the year previous we are hustling and bustling and and doing great things and some of the students if they are willing would like to and also are passing all of their classes and don't have discipline referrals have the opportunity to work on Fridays within the district at cafeterias libraries and even in the kindergarten and when they participate in this program and they're learning about how to really you know
070do a job and take Direction they're earning more points as well as getting paid $20 a week we also have the opportunity at Eagle Academy to do a lot of Hands-On life skills including building picnic tables building shelters for outside and doing things for the community we also have a lot of fantastic Community Partnerships and we do a lot of trips out and field trips to Reed's Farm the funny farm to help in the kitchens there to help with the animals and also every Friday when our students are out going to work a lot of students beinging back in the school and are doing Financial literacy as well as having presentations from the community some of our budget highlights of how we are saving money for the district is that we are able to run
071after school clubs every Wednesday at no additional cost to the district at all we're able to offer weightlifting we have board games we're starting to have a Gamers Club crafts we have a fantastic Art Club and even one thing that's new this year is our construction club which we are sharing a teacher from the high school we also have music Fridays we we have a music teacher come in every Friday with the students and we also share two teachers with the high school which is Spanish and art as well as presenters every week hey thank you to our principles for uh providing that information uh so just our next steps uh we're going to continue looking at all the all the Departments and all the building budgets uh we have meetings lined up from tomorrow
072all the way to next Thursday the 27th uh and then we'll present that budget to you on March 18th uh does anyone have any questions for me or for any of our principles okay thank you and thank you to our principles for attending tonight we appreciate it I second that thank you all for being with us um thank you to the administrative Administration for the exciting detailed presentation made this evening it's exciting to see everything on one evening that's going on in the district on on a daily basis I'm very proud that of all of you and to be in part of this board of education great job uh Mrs gber Floyd yes um it's not so much as a question but a statement um I enjoyed all the presentations and all the information um
073was encouraging and I have to go back to um Dr guo's um state of the school's presentation and I just want to say that the Pres all the presentations were great um and it was great to see all the information in in one space and time um but I'll have to say my favorite slide on your presentation Dr guio was the the last Slide the last one that said um um that we still have work to do yes that one I me that in a good way oh no no no no no that the last slide about we still have work to do I think it's great that we we have so many things I think to be proud of in a carpa Township um and I was I was having a conversation Dr I
074was saying about how you know I'm a product of this District um a former employee and now a board education member and a parent of students that going through the district now and I really am proud of the the progress that we have made and different programs that we have in place and the eies at the high school the full day preschool and in kindergarten which was unheard of we didn't have that before so I do see us growing but I think like I said my favorite slide was that we still have work to do and we we are a great District but I do think that we you know like I said I'm just thankful that um we do have leadership that knows that even though we're doing great we can even do better
075and there's always room for improvement and there's always room for conversations about how we can continue um to set the mark and you know set the bar even higher um for our students for our staff um our Administration and and our parents as well so I just wanted to say that I'm excited that we have great we've made great strides and I'm and thank you for that making that happen with your um team but I definitely think we do have still have work to do so I still think this time for collaboration and conver having courageous conversation about where do we go from here so that's what I really wanted to say um in reference to tonight's presentations in the state of the schools and all the information that was shared thank you any other
076board member I'm going to add on to that Mrs gber Floyd and by emphasizing the Strategic plan planning meetings that are coming up the first one March 25th we can add on to the area of improvement by having the participation of this community the staff uh everybody involved this stakeholders and I think that's going to add greatly to areas of improvement over the next several years so I think that's great and again thank you to the principal principles for being with us this evening you did a great job it's so interesting to see all the stuff going on in the schools it's amazing sometimes because we tend to forget our daily basis and thank you again to everyone moving on with our agenda at this time we have our student Representatives report I want to
077say something before you go ahead at the last meeting Marcus wasn't with us for a good reason he was part participating at the mock trial event am I correct Marcus that and I know we we became uh semi-finalists in that event and I think congratulations to the whole team but I'm very proud that you were one of the uh team members uh thank you very much and you both go ahead with your reports thank you all right good evening everyone starting off at the Swift Sall complex so to celebrate Valentine's Day this month the Swift Sall Parents Club hosted their sweethearts dance on February 7th whether whether it was parents grandparents or siblings or other family members the students had dates who accompanied them to the dance and this was a great opportunity for the
078kids to dress dress their best and also make core memories with the people that they love good evening everyone and then to move on to Davenport to basically promote positive School climate at our at Davenport they recently welcom the author Andy green who is an author for her child's book so throughout the day she had two assemblies where she read some of her books and talked about writing process to the kids and then even um that evening parents were allowed to come back to the school along with their kids to have their book signed and autographed and there was pizza and they had crafts as well in the art room where they decorated the entire school and just as another example of how Davenport takes decorating the school and getting engagement from the kids um
079Miss corin's art class to celebrate Lunar New Year essentially they made um posters and art designs to hang around the school to kind of promote that cultural awareness and show solidarity for the Asian community at that school and then going on to Miller in celebration of the Eagles big Super Bowl win last week the Miller drum classes played along to Fly Eagles Fly to celebrate and additionally many students dressed up in their Eagles gear or green attire to celebrate the team and then additionally at Miller they've recently had their 18th Annual Spelling be so the students have been preparing for weeks and they successfully spelled words such as new fangle Teriyaki dysfunctional and immunization and we proud to announce that gingi Chen was the winner this year so congrats to her okay and moving on
080to Alder so Valentine's Day was celebrated in a couple different ways at aler this year on the actual day last Friday students and staff dressed up in Valentine State themed colors like red and pink many classes hosted parties and cute little celebrations but one in particular stood out Mrs Watts's English class did a book tasting in which students got to taste different genre different genre of books at various stations but they also got to enjoy some actual yummy food treats and on to the other Middle School Fernwood recently it was Valentine's Day so they had a haltown pep rally so essentially it was a pep rally filled with Games music competitions and performances from the band to celebrate Valentine's Day and also was kind of used as a rejuvenation for the students to kind of
081get through the final end of the year as a push through so that was a good thing they also had going on at Fernwood and then additionally to kind of interconnect the high school and Fernwood uh select French students from the high school actually went over to Fernwood recently for a French project it's called snacks and story time so students who are taking French at the middle school are working hard create to create a presentation around revolving around the story to read it to the lower grade levels so the high schoolers went over to the Middle School to kind of give them advice and kind of T tutor them in French and give them guidance on their projects okay and moving on to the high school so last week the academy of Law and business
082aab at the high school had their business Discovery day this Academy is one of the manys offered at the high school that give students the opportunity to take classes and gain experiences through in and out of school field trips internships and more and this is in a more specialized specialized field of their choice like for alab it's business and law and for the business Discovery day the aab students across the four grades had the opportunity to engage with local business owners gaining insight into the importance of networking and the dedication that's required for success in the business World some of the local business owners featured were Mrs Klein who owns a Sourdough business Mr Dan Gordon who owns a card shop Mr van mcferson who is a lawyer and Mrs AA Johnson who owns a
083beauty salon and then also at the high school this month the high school's AC capella group run by the director Mr tensley acquired Harmony earned second place at the 2025 Mid-Atlantic quarterfinals in cherry they are now ranked the top 10 in the Mid-Atlantic region and on top of this great achievement for the Acappella program Junior Sophia Luongo won outstanding soloist at the competition and also we have a couple of UPC upcoming competitions at the high school so we at the high school love to host different events for students to have fun compete and also show school spirit the future Business Leaders of America FBA Club is hosting Spike Aon a spikeball competition on Friday February 28th and the Key Club is hosting volleyball Aon a volleyball tournament on Friday March 7th and just for a
084few more events at the high school as previously mentioned to celebrate Black History Month Mr Bill's AP and honors African-American Studies classes hosted a series of presentations throughout the day in the auditorium last Friday on Valentine's Day and it was just a great event to Showcase how rich black culture in history is revolving around the literature the music the dances the RPC and was filled with games such as guest That Tune or finish the lyric or just name the famous black couples so it was a great um presentations throughout the day and additionally we included other classes throughout the presentations so we had people from apgov AP art as along with the honors L American history classes along with ap environmental as well to kind of show how the black history and culture intersect with
085other subjects throughout the school so it was a great moment to have all students kind of unite together to showcase Black Culture to celebrate this month so it was a great thing and then additionally as previously mentioned the mack Char team we made it to semi-finals this year after months of hard work for the lawyers preparing how to make objections preparing our witnesses to do cross um uh do crosses and just it was a lot of preparation we made it to the semi-finals and we're hoping next year we can hopefully win so wish us luck but that's all we have for tonight thank you thank you I'm very proud of the two of them they do such a great job and the way they show their enthusiasm and the details that they give us is
086really appreciated so thank you both great job uh next is our public comment before that I would like to uh share a statement yeah the board of education is aware of the social media post we take comments about and suggestions of violence seriously and took immediate action we're working with outside agencies and have internally investigated the matter please understand that this is a Personnel matter and under New Jersey Law we cannot comment further at this time and we will not be responding to any comments from the public about this matter at this time we have our public comments for agenda items only the board values and welcomes comments and opinions from residents this meeting will now be open to public comments three minutes per person on agenda items only if your questions pertain to litigation
087student or Personnel items please see the superintendent after the meeting as the board does not discuss these matters in public depending on the nature and complexity of your questions the board secretary may ask for your contact information so that someone can back get back to you with a response as a reminder this is a public meeting and all comments should be appropriate for a public setting and made in a respectful manner please come up to the podium and and state your full name and address if you have any comments regarding the agenda anyone seeing no one we'll move on to the next item on the agenda that which is finance operations Mr Smith you have any updates uh there were a couple updates that went out uh via email earlier today uh regarding some Professional
088Services and at this time Mr Price I think you're going to try to present from your home there yeah am I unmuted now yes go go ahead Mr audio check good okay I appreciate the opportunity to check in remotely tonight is because I'm I'm at home um ill and um I'm feeling better but I'm I don't want to be around anybody right now so I don't want to spread whatever it is that I have uh but I I am um going to give the finance and operations um report as committee chair um the length of the minute was 60 Minutes the date and hour of the meeting was February 11th of 2025 at 6:00 p.m. in attendants was Mr buers Mr delarka myself Mr Price myself and Miss Mrs Sullivan administrators attending Dr gucio M
089fiser and Mr Smith subjects discussed transportation department Miss Fischer gave a brief snapshot of the department and discussed new software DMV inspections the bus fleet the district's exploration of alternative fuel buses and staff recruitment um Food Services Department the committee discussed the current financial status of the department and noted the department may end up with minimal Surplus facility Department Mr Smith noted the noted the facilities department is continually working on projects throughout the district and work orders throughout the fmx system business office Mr Smith noted the upcoming interview timelines for director positions and the committee discussed options for waste removal services Mr Smith reviewed several items on the agenda for approval including the monthly reports various tuition and home instruction contracts Professional Service agreements Grant applications bid and RFP authorizations and assets disposals the committee
090discussed the 2025 2026 budget including a discussion on the tax rate the districts plan to review all the facets of the budget to look for efficiencies the committee recommends moving forward with the action I item discussed um the next time in place of the meeting will be March 11th 2025 6:00 p.m. at the board office um that's my report and while I have the microphone I just had a quick question or follow up on some of the presentations one would before for um Mr Smith uh we talked about 82% uh salary and benefits what is the total number of employees we have in the District at this time I I think it was somewhere up around 1500 at one time where are we now yeah it's right around 1500 yep that's correct is it okay
091and obviously not all of them have benefits but I just wanted to confirm the numers still around 1500 okay thank you very much thank you Mr Price any questions from board members seeing that we had need a motion for finance item number 8.2 so made second Ireland any discussion roll call please Mr buers Mrs Gilbert Floyd yes Mr Ireland yes Mr Price yes Mr sepy yes Mr salagi yes Miss hman yes and Mr delar yes we need a motion please for finance items a number 8.3 through 8.16 Mr Price I'll make that motion second Mrs Hyman any discussion roll call please Mr buers Mrs gber Floyd yes Mr Ireland yes Mr Price yes Mr sepy yes Mrs Sagi yes Miss Hyman yes and Mr delar yes this time we move on to curriculum M Moss
092is there any updates for from your area yes there were some clarifying questions that came in um regarding two topics that were discussed in the committee meeting one about a proposal from the high school to add a zero period if you will at the beginning of the day and the second regarding uh Middle School Chromebooks we send some clarifying information out thank thank you Mrs Gilbert Floyd please our chairperson good evening everyone I think I might be in the same boat with Mr Price so I want to so our committee meeting was held on uh February the 11th 2025 at 7:00 p.m. the length of the meeting was 1 hour and 12 minutes um members attending the meeting board members attending the meeting were um myself Mrs salagi and Mr Dela Barka administrators that attended
093the meeting were um assistant superintendent Lily moss and superintendent um Dr Kimberly guio uh the subjects that were discussed um the committee we reviewed um agenda items um field trips professional development um Sunday system materials professional development and varsity tutoring the committee discussed um the plan for the Middle School Chromebooks and a pilot for a morning tiered support period at the high school the committee was um updated on the winter Universal screening and the process for interventions for grades uh 1-8 uh the agenda also reflected the preschool literacy night which will be held on March for March 6 and possible items for the next meeting um updates will um we'll just have updates on discuss discussion items and our next meeting will take place is scheduled for March 11th 2025 at central office at 7:00
094p.m. thank you you're welcome we need a motion for curriculum items 9.2 through 9.3 second Ireland any discussion roll call please Mr buyers Mr Gilbert Floyd yes Mr irand yes Mr Price Mr Price yes Mr sepy yes Mrs sloi yes Miss Heyman yes and Mr delar yes Mr Wes for policy any updates there in that area I do not Mr Delker thank you and Mr Ireland our chairman your report please Perfect all right so we met also on Tuesday February 11th at 5:00 p.m. our length of our meeting was 51 minutes long board members that attended were myself Miss Hyman Mr sepy Mr Del Barka administrators I attended were Dr guio Mr West and others was Miss Amy H Elco subjects that were discussed policy 8420 emergency and crisis situations Emer uh regulation 84202 bomb
095threats regulation 8427 lockdown procedures regulation 82210 active shooter policy 8500 food services policy 8540 School nutrition programs abolish policy 8550 meal charges and outstanding Food Services Bill abolish and bylaw 0155 uh board committees conclusions that were reached with the policy committee Norms were reviewed and discussed by the committee the committee agreed to add one more Norm to the list which was the description of the committee responsibilities from the bylaws um policy 8540 School nutrition programs and policy 8550 meal changes and outstanding Food Services Bill were reviewed and discussed by the committee the committee agreed to abolish both policies pending board approval policy 8500 Food Services was reviewed and discussed by the committee policy 8500 is a mandated replacement from Strauss Ese and Incorporated language from policy 8540 and 8550 policy 8550 is more comprehensive food
096services policy is up for two readings and waiting board approval bylaw 0155 board committees was reviewed and discussed by the committee the committee agreed to add standing representative language and their responsibilities to the following Alena County school board's Association njsba legislative delegate and njsba Township liazon and Hall of Fame committee bylaw 0155 is up for one reading and waiting board approval I'm almost done regulation 85210 active shooter regulation 84 20.7 lockdown procedures and 8 uh 8420 point2 bomb threats were reviewed and discussed by the committee these regulations are mandated procedural revisioned by um Charles asme and shortened to protect safety protocols from public uh disclosure the these revisions are supported by the committee and are up for one reading and waiting board approval policy 8420 emergency and crisis situations was reviewed and discussed by the
097committee policy 8420 is mandated by Strauss ese for revisions and supported by the committee policy 8420 stresses the importance of the district to retune retun ret whatever thank you update crisis plans and procedures on a yearly basis policy 8420 is up for two readings and waiting board approval um other than that we have our meeting just like everybody else said March 11th but we have ours at five possible topics to discuss is policy 8600 Transportation Mr Wes other than me messing up that word do you have anything else no all good Mr Ireland thank you thank you Mr President that's all we have from uh the best committee that I beg to differ thank you Mr Ireland all of that work was done in 51 minutes it's amazing isn't it uh we need a motion
098to approve policy items 10.2 through 10.9 make that motion thank you a second second Mrs Heyman thank you any discussion roll call please Mr buyers Mrs Gilbert Floyd yes Mr Ireland yes Mr Price Mr Price yes Mr sepy yes Mrs sloi yes Miss hman yes and Mr delar yes next item is Personnel Dr Charlton any updates I have to use this one over here just a reminder as Dr guio said coming up on Friday March 7th from 1:00 to 3:30 at the EHT High School is our third annual Atlantic C job fair so please people in the audience and those of you watching at home please help us spread the word thank you thank you Dr Charlton I need a motion for Personnel items number 11.2 through 11.9 so made and seconded any discussion roll
099call please Mr buers Mrs Gilbert Floyd yes Mr Iran yes Mr Price Mr Price yes Mr sepy yes Mrs sloy yes Miss Hyman yes and Mr Del barin yes and Dr cucho you have the honor of introducing our newly approved me um Personnel it is an honor Mr delara to announce for the first time as an eggh haror Township School District employee um our power professional at the Swift slay ball complex Miss Sierra Nunes please stand par professional at the Swift slave ball complex joining Miss nunz is Tracy Grant the teacher at the Swift slay ball complex Tammy Sheri preschool teacher at bargain toown School shaa Maye and the new assistant principal at a corer Township High School Britney Henry congratulations and welcome and I think you learned a whole lot lot about our school
100district uh so that's part of your orientation but you can go out and celebrate now so you have my permission to Exit Stage right under new business we have we need a motion regarding the revised District school year calendar have a motion please motion Hyman and the second any discussion roll call please Mr buyers Mrs gber Floyd yes Mr Ireland yes Mr Price Mr Price yes Mr sepy yes Mr salagi yes M Hyman yes Mr delar yes we have another moot New Motion U Mrs hle please please yes I would ask the board to entertain a motion to accept the resignation of Frederick Wilson effective June 30th 2025 may I have that motion please motion hman second Ireland any discussion roll call please Mr buers Mrs Gilbert Floyd yes Mr Ireland yes Mr Price Mr
101yes Mr sepy yes Mrs logi yes Miss hman yes and Mr delar yes under old business we have a motion for the hi reports May I have a motion for 13.1 motion Ireland second thank you any discussion roll call please Mr buers Mrs Gilbert Floyd yes Mr Ireland yes Mr Price Mr Price yes Mr sey yes Mrs logy yes Miss hman yes and Mr delar yes moving down to Communications uh Mr Ireland I think you have some information regarding the ATA County School boards Association it's been a long night Mr deler I don't have anything oh great thank you uh unfortunately I do have some information regarding the New Jersey school boards Association I do serve on the board of directors I'm going to try to shorten this so it's not overwhelming they did approve
102their budget so everybody knows there will be an increase in membership dues and I'm sure we'll be notified of that as soon as possible they have a new U quarterly online newsletter called Capital watch they are now having new board member orientation weekend the next weekend is February 21st through 23rd for any new board members around the state there's a new associate information technology Association uh area under the membership category there are spring training programs going on and we receive information almost every day regarding the programs and I believe that's enough information regarding the State Association uh we now have comments from the public regarding any areas of interest I'm not going to repeat repeat that whole statement again but if there's anyone interested in coming up at this time give your name and address
103please at regarding any areas of Interest oh don't all Rush up thank you very much um any comments from the Board of Education members seeing none may have a motion to adjourn Ireland motion all in favor oppose thank you everybody we are adjourned see you next month thank you for being with us this evening