001All right. So, please stand stand for the flag salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please remain standing for a moment of silence. You may 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 to the city clerk. I hereby call to order the special public meeting on Monday, May 12th, 2025 in the Padavano building, 1912nd Street, Nagasak, New Jersey, 7601 at 58 518 p.m. Miss S. Angel, roll call, please. Yes. Uh, Miss Austin here. Miss Amir Hamson here. M present. More here. Mr.
002Martin here. Miss Pringle present. Mr. Harris present. Mr. Ste here. We do have a perfect Oh, and Mr. Carol is Yeah. So, Mr. Carol is conflicted, so he cannot attend. Okay, perfect. Okay. Um, so before we begin the public comments portion, um, just have a little statement to read. We understand that there may be some questions regarding the purpose of tonight's meeting. All personnel matters under the New Jersey state law are to be kept private for the benefit of the individual employees. No action is being taken tonight, either in public or in private. We understand the notice of the meeting described the purpose of it to be a superintendent evaluation. Again, this board cannot discuss any of that substance. I will simply state that the New Jersey law requires the superintendent receives a yearly evaluation
003from the board of education before July 1st and tonight's meeting is simply a routine step in that legally mandated process. Because we as a board simply cannot discuss personnel related matters in public. Upon the recommendation of our board attorney, we will not be responding to any comments or questions regarding the subject matter. Okay. So, moving on to public comments. Uh public participation shall be shall be governed by the following rules. Number one, if in person, a participant must sign the sign-in sheet and be recognized by the presiding officer and preface comments by an announcement of his or her name, municipality of residents, group affiliation if applicable. Two, each statement made by a participant shall be limited to 3 minutes duration during the public session. Three, all statements, questions or inquiries shall be directed to the
004presiding officer and any questions or inquiries directed by a participant to any board member shall be redirected to the presiding officer 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 superintendent responses to questions or inquiries shall be held until the end of public participation. At this time, public comments is now open. There's anybody in the public that would like to speak. Good afternoon everybody. Good afternoon. I'm here because I did agenda on the statement that was put out and after reading it and we got down to the bottom resource myself. So I person but the thing about it was the verbiage that was used on the bottom of the actual statement
005stating the valuation of superintendent. Um we know it's personnel everybody gets a yearly review every year no matter what. But I don't, you know, think of any discussion, Dr. McBride and board from my standpoint. Thank you. You've done a a good job. You've been um in the narrative of negative numbers, but this was before me. This was prior to doc the Mr. Sanchez and this was before Mr. Sanchez. So the bottom falling out was when Maywood got away. That's where the bottom fall. And you're trying to rise those numbers back to the top for our kids community. That's who I fight for. I don't care about nobody on the board. That's who I fight for. And the generation behind him and the generation before him. And I'm hoping that whatever goals they set for you,
006you can attain them. And I know you will because the goals that you gave prior to getting hired were goals that we needed to have. We didn't have that before. It wasn't transparent before. So now that it is on a transparency basis, I am glad and I'm hoping that when they come together and you have this discussion that everyone has an individual mind mindset and we're not leading by someone else's leading and we're not following because someone else is following. I'm hoping that they're feeling this with their gut and the knowledge of knowing that, you know, you are doing what you're supposed to do. I'm going to say to the board here as well, like I said, that's what I'm fighting for. You guys don't matter to me because I want to see him, if
007he comes into this district, get an get a good education and have goals set for the principles that are heading the building. So that's my narrative for me. Um, and anything else, uh, I can't control anything else. I can only control what I see happening, you know, and speak out for the stuff that I see happening. But when I get phone calls from others, you know, in this district and saying, well, what is really going on? That's what I can control. So I'm just bringing it to the attention of the board that I'm hoping when these evaluations are done not just for him that goes all across the board that we are thinking as individuals and our mindset is as individuals and we are not being led by others and if you don't have that
008mindset then I don't think you should be here on the back of us. Thank you. Just for the record could you just state your first and last name? Oh sorry last R. That's all I did. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. Anybody else from the public? Do we have anybody online? Nobody online. Okay. So, at this time, public comment section section is now closed. Um, so we're going to move into executive session where no action will be taken. Be it resolved that the Haca Board of Education determines it determines it necessary to meet in executive session on Monday, May 12th, 2025 to discuss personnel matters. Be it further resolved that these matters will be made public when the need for confidentiality no longer exists. Can I have a motion to go to executive session? I'll make
009a motion. Okay. Motion by Trustee Martin. Can I have a second? Second. Second by Trustee Pringle. All those in favor say I. Anyone opposed? Okay. Um, just so the public understands, uh, this will be the end of our meeting. There will be no public um, there will be no board comments at the end. And hope everyone has a good week. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much.