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August 11, 2025 Special Meeting

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Source
YouTube / Hackensack Public Schools
Date
2025-08-12
Location
Bergen County, NJ
Material
Transcript
Extent
490 words · about 3 min
Collected
2026-06-19

Transcript

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001Okay. And here's Okay. Good evening everyone. Please stand for the flag. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated. >> In accordance with the open public meeting act, NJSA 104-6. Adequate notification of this meeting has been provided by advertising in the record and posting notice in the board of education administration building and filing notice with the city clerk. I here I hereby call to order the special public meeting on Monday, August 11, 2025 in the Padavano building, 1912nd Street, Hackinac, New Jersey 07601 at 6:16 p.m. >> 6:16 p.m. Miss Sebastian, can you please do a roll call? >> Miss O Buchra, >> present. >> Miss Hamsa, >> present. >> Mr. Carol,

002>> present. >> Miss Gilmore is absent. Mr. Martin, >> present. Missing >> present. Mr. Jones >> present. >> Miss Harris >> present. Mr. Stein >> here. >> We have a forum. Excellent. We are going to move right into public comments. Public participation shall be governed by the following rules. One, if in person, a participant must sign the signing sheet and be recognized by the presiding officer and must preface preface comments by an announcement of his or her name, municipality of residence, and group affiliation if applicable. Two, each statement made by a participant shall be limited to three minute duration during the public session. Three. All statements, questions or inquiries shall be directed to the presiding officer and any questions or inquiries directed by a participant to another board member shall be redirected to the presiding

003officer who shall determine if such statement, question or inquiry shall be addressed by the presiding officer on behalf of the board or by the individual board member. And four, all board and/or acting superintendent responses to questions or inquiries shall be held until the end of public participation. At this moment, public comments is now open to the public in person. See that there are none. Is there anyone online? Okay. At this time, public comments uh is now closed. We are going to move on to our committee resolution. and we're going to start with personnel which is with Cesy Armor. >> Thank you so much um Madame President. Um I would like to make a motion to offer items A1 and A for consideration. Um and in particular uh just so folks know this does include um

004an updated district calendar. Um, and just so our um our families are aware, um, the the changes in this calendar include um, instead of four snow day givebacks, uh, we we changed that to three snow day givebacks. Um, and the big change is we wanted to make our graduation date a fixed firm date on the calendar so that folks can begin planning now. Um, so please note that graduation for 2026 is Tuesday, June 23rd. So those are the changes that are on this calendar. Um, and I would like to really thank everybody um who is involved in planning and putting together the calendar. It is a very lengthy process. Um including um our acting superintendent and her entire team at central office, all of our administrators, ha uh PASA um and our board. Um thank

005you so very much for that. Um and with that, I'd like to uh make a motion to offer those items for consideration. >> Okay. So we have a motion from second by Carol. Masha, can you please do a roll call? Miss Elsen Baluch. >> Yes. >> Miss Amson. >> Yes. >> Mr. Perol. >> Yes. >> Miss Gilmer is absent. >> Mr. Martin, >> yes. >> Miss Pringle, >> yes. >> Mr. Jones, >> yes. >> Miss Harris, >> yes. >> Mr. Stein, >> yes. >> Motion passes. Excellent. Okay. So, there are no board comments for tonight. Um, and can I have a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> So, move. >> Okay. Motion by trustee Scott. I have a second. Second by trustee. All those in favor say I. >> I. Anyone opposed? >> Excellent. Thank

006you all for joining us. Have a great evening. Thank you.

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