001everyone March we're gonna head right into our agenda because we do have a fairly packed agenda for tonight and I know we've got a lot of stuff to discuss in all of our committees um so the first item on our agenda is the review of recent legislative action on the upcoming State Senate and assembly education committee agendas um so I had put a link to the different committees um on our agenda just so we could take a look it does look like the assembly education committee had already met last or this week yester on the 10th um but we can sort of look at the things that they had discussed um and then the Senate education committee is meeting next Monday March 17th um so why don't we start with the assembly education committee um
002and and so we'll just sort of go through there isn't there aren't too many bills on here um and you know essentially being in committee doesn't mean it's being you know brought to the floor or anything like that right things that are proposed um so the first thing that they had discussed were requirements for school counselor certification oh I'll get that later um which outlining the roles a little bit more clearly as well as professional development for school counselors um the next one is um requiring instruction on cursive handwriting in public school curriculum for grades three through five I will say okay I will say my son is in second grade me cursive they're doing it my grandson yeah my grandson got it this year e Bruns and they're doing all the lowercase comes over
003he writes all my Nam it's a l for sure is wonderful it's true signature can you imagine they really don't even signature right it's a legal binding should have what are you do now like the doctor's and then you put a well my signature well I mean after so many years your signature gets I mean I have Catholic School signature but I'm in a hurry it's like doesn't look like anything you know Dave does line and then Benjamin in school when his teacher and said this is how my dad signs it I didn't Forge it and I'm like d you're in kindergarten anyhow uh so you know obviously we can keep track and I'm sure if these things become law then you know we're obviously made aware of it um establishing a scholarship program say
004Jersey strong Public Service um which I think is sort of similar to what we've seen where they provide additional money in certain ways for whether it's um Public Schools or higher education um the next one is something that I know has sort of been a a fat topic um I me the school boards and we sort of briefly touched on here which is uh cell phone and social media guidelines um to be developed by the Department of Education um and for policies to be adapted by adopted by each district um I feel like there's been some movement on this I just saw it on on New Jersey school board's uh website um I can take a closer look it it still hasn't been you know approved or signed so we don't really have to do
005anything with it yet but um you know I know like we've sort of spoken about I think Mr P you brought up about the unfunded um with Senator goal bringing that up he said he was going to make sure that all mandates were going to be funded so I think we should send him the bill if we have to put it through um and then there's the requiring the commissioner of education for approval for leases that extend 20 years um as School supervisor pilot program um and then the same thing oh I guess they're reviewing the Senate bill for cell phone and social media guidelines probably because it's moving forward on one side but we should share if I may we should share that we're we're very um we're always ahead the ton mon we
006do everything so um at the high school level Dr V has already provided the satchels and terminology um so that you can stay a child it's not put away this is where it's expect to be put uh in the middle school they are not allowed to be seen um it hasn't really trickled down to the elementary supposed to low Elementary they don't have it as a major but I think that we're in if it becomes an unfunded mandate we're in really good shape to be able to make sure that we're meeting the Mandate because we've already started to do what needs to be done regarding the cell phones not being out in the in the academics I just wanted to share that so the amendment to the bill was just specific to asking or telling
007the commissioner that they he needs to consult with various stakeholders including njsba not just the original bill was he had to develop this okay now they amended it to say involve some stold that's what well I think a lot of districts are doing it because when I was at New Jersey school board's meeting um they had said they were started the vouches different playing field and we started that last year wasn't two years ago I think it's a great idea I did too all right and then we'll just quickly look over the um Senate committee um agenda which they have posted for next Monday um uh so the first one that they're discussing and just so like for clarification when we look at these if there's anything that we feel strongly about we have the
008right to submit testimony or request to be sharing testimony in person about these um but that's sort of the purpose of sort of going through it that they don't move this forward without fearing potential con concerns um so the first one is requires portable anti choking devices be placed in schools portable anti choking it's like a yeah they what's it called the old fashion baby yes yeah they AR to be very very effective I'll discuss it with our I never yeah I know people that gave it the baby showers that so this next one is really interesting and I think we should you know if the committee and then you know the board agrees maybe put something in support of it provides for voluntary contributions by taxpayers on tax returns for state aid for public
009schools wow which interesting I don't know if they're suggesting that it would all go into the state aid pot because then you know right like if you have a Monro taxpayer who wants you know a tax deduction maybe something like that um you know it would go into something called the school aid contribution fund and fing state school aid above what is appropriated by the legisl so unless you can put in like the signature line that you want to go somewhere else I think it's in general you can your money say like it's a great idea but people should have the right to choose where it goes if they're donating I guess they can do that you in other ways as well it sounds like they kind of no it does it just say hold
010on taxpayers May indicate on their gross income tax recurrent that a portion of their tax refund be deposited into the school aid contribution fund the legislature will use the funds collected to supplement State School Aid in addition to and not in place of the annual appropriation any funds pled may not be used to supplant the state funds appropriated to state from the prior year so yeah it doesn't so they want the money to capitalize their money they out the right money so they're going to collect they're going to collect it and they're going to give it back to where it should go but not from them when they and what they think should go does not mean that's right that's right according to them they don't think you should get anymore I think honestly you
011would have a lot more buying if you could say where you wanted it to go I think so too um and then the next one is I think kind of very similar but be allowing corporate businesses to do the same thing I show oh definitely so then the next bill which is s 3222 it requ Rees instruction on cyber security in grades 9 through 12 um it requires the office of SEC Secretary of higher education to develop cyber security model curricula and establishes Loan Redemption programs for individuals in certain cyber security occupations so I'm guessing since this is a bill to require it it's not required I don't know what the extent is of what the bill is asking for I know who sort of do like proper behavior I don't know if this is
012going to take that a step further well you'll be happy to know that um beginning next year Faber Security will be an elective open to all students at high school wow it was uh we presented at a curriculum committee I believe back in January very so that and that is actually part of our already existing um course equip so um with the addition of this course and the new computer science principal course it will actually by installing that course we saw this coming up the um it will complete our computer science track at the high school which makes this eligible for further accreditation so um this is a program that is scalable in the middle school as well so we'll be prepared to do that within the next year or so as well that's great
013that's awesome yeah so that that that's already done and um those teachers will be trained this summer great um the next one is establishes It's s established with a New Jersey out of time out of school time advisory commission to review before school after school and summer school programs um so I just opened it but essentially it would examine um assess the the state of out of school time programs at all different districts adopt Statewide standards for out of school time programs examine the existing amount of funding currently available for those programs um as well as develop and examine development and operation of these programs in districts and make recommendations to increase accounting quality of before after and summer programs I was G to say they can use us as the model I was like
014I know yes but I think the key the key element there was is is is Equitable offering whereas schools traditionally their summer programs have been centered on remediation service which we don't do um which uh really kind of came out of the co era and then you have traditional summer school and then you have what your state mandated extended school year for special education population uh what our program does particularly well is we build out all through all you know all programs uh special education and also Advanced richment uh and we build on them every year so that we're in good shape with this out feel confident as far as the funding um we don't get what I make was unique about us is that our our programs are completely self- sustaining to the point
015where we can fund remediation programs at Zer o' of the this U we this was actually we were going to talk about this last night at CAC but we ran out of time and in in my conversations with other districts that's what they're really looking for guidance on it's how they could fund it um through uh you know to fund remediation because I was strucking to a couple of teachers that I knew one with my cousin and another couple friends the co issue those children that were I have a grandson born in covid he's in kindergarten all those children during that time their learning experience was just chopped up into pieces like a puzzle right and then we bring them back is there any remediation can you pinpoint those students that's like to know that
016was the origin of best yeah and then give them the remediation that maybe the parents see at home or something parents can do at home or grandparents can help I know when they come over with their homework I'm like I can't do the man I tell and bring it to my daughter but those kids from those years they lost a lot are you thinking of like during like for everyone during the school day or like additional no I'm saying additional during the summer I say at um the teacher sees something and I would say from I don't know what grades you could suggest I mean he's in kindergarten so he was born right after Co so things that they miss I don't know if a teacher can see it or the parent can tell that
017there was so much missed and all these couple of teachers I talked to said it was I mean it was a terrible time for this for the children and I don't know if we've caught them up so what we found in Monroe and and this is a great it's an origin story for our front of program is is when when you know Dr lemman was just kind of fiding well you were just fiding in yeah so so we found that the state had had all this money that they were going to give to schools for to do exactly what you had described they called it learning loss learning I thought was probably especially as speaks to mon was probably a mischaracterization of what really happened because if you look at performance data there wasn't excuse
018me wasn't necessarily IND indicative of learning loss but what was lost are what we now call clicks we're already this life the key skills and so when we realized that what our students in Monroe didn't need was necessarily math fundamentals because our teachers in Monroe did a fantastic job there Co of teaching um probably more so than other districts that when our kids came back they needed those clicks is it kind of like the yeah yeah yeah circul we definitely needed to learn the independent right uh to learn how to be independent one of the conversations that I remember having with parents is when we were on the screen you they would always have somebody next to them and we would say like please don't be next to them because when they come to school
019we were hybrid they would come to school and be like okay take on your math folder I can't it right like but I can see it so like you go ahead look at your desk I think it's there and they just kind of have like a learned helplessness because somebody was always there to help them through it so 100% it was those life riness SK kids that were some of the most proficient and complex content areas but they didn't know how to share scissors that's another thing principle that you have when you go to school camaraderie okay social social skill social skills um with an adult a teacher you had I mean I sat a whole week with my grandson because my daughter was had to go to school to do the online and his
020was at home so I had to sit in a little desk for a week it was not really comfortable and watch this go on and it was really horrible to see because the kid were out of water like you said one of the little girls said I can't find my folder cuz my grandmother fell asleep on it so she couldn't find the fold my grandson says I have to mute this because it's really bothering me and the kids were not paying attention right so you know they lost those interpersonal skills right so we designed sorry M rner but we designed the program to address those so that's why the majority of our summer programs and really they just in that way to the say is is really centered on they you know their curricularly programs
021but the essence of the program are still to the th those skills are still deficient high school kid in team oh yeah and things like that um and we're still dealing with that but um fortunately in Monroe um performance wise we necessarily didn't have a learning yeah yeah I I think it would be it wouldn't be fair to say that we were okay with some of those other areas because we still talk about it like when EI whether I'm talking to the varf coaches or the van director see the difference as those children are coming through but I will say that there is if we are reclaiming it um and we're seeing that even in some of the after school programs that we do at the elementary schools and you're starting to see bounce back
022in like sports and things like that that's good I also think you know for you know I guess to advertise a bit the Falcons n Sumer Academy which I pulled up the name of you know but like that transition program like teaching kids these skills to get ready for their them being in that environment you know is you know I think that this is our first year doing a program like this for for prek Learners and like that younger student so they can sort of learn some of those skills before taking on the additional academic skills which I think you know is really a fantastic way to get them ready and to sort of reduce that concern so similarly and and it have to complement the curriculum office we you we we pay attention to
023these broadcast very closely um and you know whether is computer science mandate that we know was coming whether it was you know my predecessor anticipating the personal financial literacy mandate um we know what's coming and 12 months school is coming whether you want you know whether you agree with it or disagree with it and if we don't if we don't prepare now and they're either going to R we're going to be catching up when these mandates become actualized or they're going to look to private organizations who we don't believe teer as well as we do 100% so with the 12 month thing one other thing because we're offering so many classes and you know we'll move on from this if anyone sees anything else on that agenda like feel free to to point it out
024but um you mentioned the P the personal finance right the finance the literacy requirement I know that it I think it has been discussed before but there are a lot of students that are asking to you know take that whether it's online over the summer or things like that because there's so many other offerings that they want to take that we're offering you know and they don't want to take Tom with from the other things they want to take I I hear you but you do realize with 12 month it's very important to know there are states that do 12 month it doesn't mean that they're in school right right I don't think in your death for 12 months when I say 12 months school you know I'm I'm speaking to enrichment model um you
025know I I don't even know if remediation is the answer 12 months because I do think there needs to be some breaks um but just just learning you know contact of of learning experiences meaningful learning experiences throughout the year it's just the staple of our culture here especially in so all right anything else on these agendas no okay so our next topic is the letter um for those of you who are not on the citizens advisory committee um we sort of did did a whole like 180 on the letter um before last night it was mostly focus on the funding formula and how we don't really receive our fair share um as well as some of the things we really haven't been able to provide I like so in discussion with the you know the
026committee which um you know Mr P had sort of led the discussion on last night we sort of said that you know I think Miss faan was actually one who said like if the time for this has passed right they know that there's a problem with the funding formula too late so we sort of said what we should really try to do which you know I appreciate M Faldo taking getting this you know completely revamped in 24 hours uh is to look more at what is unique to Monroe what Appropriations we would like to see um you know that sort of saying like we had never gotten our fair share and these are the things we really need because we have not gotten that that money in order to do that um and so do
027you should we read through because I know we want to get this done um so I'm sorry I was handing out the letter so and D I didn't hear what you're already covered but basically the nut of it would be uh we made a decision last night because we kind of feel like the state funding discussion is kind of fleeted us it's gone um so what what we tried to do based on the feedback we got last night at committee was uh really just kind of talk about what we believe to be the you know inequitable distribution of of Aid um now we had this stuff and another piece of good feedback we got from the committee last night was was pairing down the letter a little bit and also maybe including some some data
028uh and some charts I did create a we have we have plenty of data we can share I guess what we would need to do tonight put this to bed um any you know I don't know if trying to crush through this in 15 minutes is okay you know what let's read it our read it ourselves and then and then think about what data do you want to share because I have all of these all the data that you shared when the senator I love the equal it I pulled that right off the material we gave so just looking at this I think that we either should like so this paragraph that starts that in Spring 2023 that we received the $1 million um I I feel like that was two years ago I was
029know we received additional funds last year I 200,000 I think it was 3 300 right so I think we either need to like also include that or you know but maybe like make that smaller I'm sorry but so we got some extra Aid we got a million which was laston is those districts that we share sort of when we met with the commissioner that have received $10 million $15 million for Capital keep on going Capital Improvements and to State you know please then you can do that please consider appropriating additional funds something along the Lin like similar to the Appropriations that were awarded to XYZ last year you right a similar or greater award would be right let's say similar obviously better but we don't want be don't want to be I'll have to I
030just have to where you going to put um I have I have some of it at least from the last two years we can probably get further data so strike the first sentence of the second or the first chunk of the second paragraph referring to budget resolution 94 and we're going to replace that with a a statement that compares uh previous year uh Appropriations to peer districts that we did not get yeah and I think we can obviously remove the really I think it's just that whole paragraph and then just adding what we've said and maybe having a chart of what those other districts received and then this part where it says please consider appropriating additional funds I think um is perfect uh and maybe giving them an amount and okay yeah now that's what
031I'll need and then I I try to make a more of an explicit connection with the hold they full day early childhood to right no and I think we can also sort of I don't want to say kiss up to them but Lobby to them that to help them achieve their goal of providing I think we kind of say that in the end um or did I take that out that might have been original letter we had a statement about Monro G an opportunity you have it I think that I mean yeah please consider appropriating additional funds School dist support full day preschool I think that I think that should be I do so and actually I would bold that purple I would too I'm not kidding b y cuz you bold the unique you
032bold the other facts and then you bold that and what you could do is you know you and I both know if you make it 11 fonts on the very top and the very bottom we'll be able to fit it all at one page with well this is 11 was at rers again try I bet I bet I bet I could take a couple of these sentences in my English way well that would be great and I I tend to get worded with my tomorrow we'll look at it really quickly not to change the spirit of the language of what we say but just to uniquely make it maybe an active voice versus a passive you get rid of a few words here and there and then we get a few more spaces right never
033use I don't want anybody say I'm taking from anybody else I'm saying AI can can drop it down too my other thought just just because I know we got we have a lot of stuff to talk about would be to also we discussed this that we have a high senior citizen population and we discussed that we don't receive a lot of money but from what I was told prior to the funding formula 2008 Monro received money because of our unique demographics for that and so I think it's important that they know like in this letter our our legislators are wear because you know we've shared this with them but really just to drive home that we are not getting that because of this issue because of our unique construct and because we there's a that
034law but essentially you know prior to 2008 we were receiving this because of our unique construct the formula never addressed this therefore you know we need help right right right um so so make it maybe just kind of make it more clear the that are you that that variable you know are you saying that you're worried that that that point may be lost on letter right I don't think just sharing with them that we have 50% approximately of residents that are senior citizens is a problem for the funding formula unless they realize why I have to make a connection a little more explicit um right so I mentioned that at when I spoke at the funding I that was my big mention because I said I was this one of the seniors on the board
035and I mentioned that explicitly to them not that they paid attention to anybody but I did mention it so and actually somebody oh the lady Nancy from the senior center I'm on the commissioner for a she said I went back and I listened to you she said and everything you said was good and she said you put levity in it and everybody paid attention to me so I said well thank you but I did explicitly say I think I don't want to be blamed so that it's not you formula doesn't a lot for the this discrepency when it used to do that before that um so you to just fix that second bullet make a little bit more apparent why like yeah we don't like there's that unique blob of whatever the third bullet it's
036kind of both of them yeah um the second one's unique is just senior citizens the third one is 50% live on fixed incomes I don't know maybe we can combine that I think you can combine you know what we keep changing this we're going to go to April or May we've got to decide right now what we're going to and take it right now and it change it Mr morala and this has to be the final thing tonight yeah I think that the second and third bullet I agree with you should be one one bullet I mean if you want you even actually if you really want to technically you can make that a semicolon because it is to it is to complete sent I just want to be I don't want to offend anyone
037but no especially Judy my mother-in-law not every retiree is a senior citizen right okay so then don't you to send me call I agree 100% but it should still be one bullet because you're saying Monro taic senior citizen population and approximately 50% of Monroe you could say approximately 50% of the residents in Monroe approximately 50% of entired residents the difference there you go I think one I think the senior citizen part is the more is the is what we need to really focus on though because I think there are a lot of other districts that have people that are on fixed incomes that are significantly higher than we are like a lot of the urban areas right but the difference is with them the funding formula was designed to work for them and it's works
038against us exactly because of the fact of the retirement income not being added into to and you have a lot of retired and come down in Tom's River huge so you have that's why Senator go is he no that's ocean right I mean to that connection we are very actually what did you say we are very unique in Monro yes with this situation um just really quick the other thing I might modify is under other facts to consider um it says it has not been updated or revised in over 15 years it was it was revised right because S2 was a was that we you know what year was that the 2017 or 18 I think that it came he talked about that when we were on the zoom he did right well no you
039know what you took it from 2008 maybe it was updated changed for us all right so for us it has changed for us in 50 years now where did I get that back but I think you could probably then just take away other facts to consider right and take away that first bullet point the other two points are unique about yes and then and and if you if you recall when we had um our panel here that were nice enough to come the statement was made so I'm just repeating what was publicly recorded the statement was made that we do we don't get Equalization Aid because they think we are paying our fair share you remember that that was statement that was made I'm just repeating it that on our and that's why I go
040back this is something itial recently it's that the fact that they're we are considered wealthier than we are because not of the income that is being accounted for in the formula is is things that we're getting in our in our town in our school district so and because we have such high senior citizens population it's not because they don't want to support it's just how the formula is right and so I think that's where we need to focus along with the you know zero it might have been good years ago the formula but maybe for two years not what was it 2008 not for 17 years you know you have to revise and revise up to whatever's going on today right and since our population of seniors has increased I mean you know for them
041not to go back and look at these things I mean I blame them a lot for it I mean they have to realize that education is a the most important thing that carries this state and this country is a good education and don't go back and revise it after people have complaining for 15 years Zach that might be where you got the 15 years people have districts have been complaining well I know it's certainly been in our orb a long time that and when I was on the other board we complained then right and I'm going for that one for eight years so it's got to be more than 15 okay all right is there anything else in the letter because then I do want to move on I told him I was gonna try
042the and I'll before we finish and then we'll look at just a little bit if we could just get a couple of the maybe a preposition here or there out of it okay I have meeting I do great need to be done what about the data that are in the letter that that like the enrollment I think that's important and then the equalization I love those two can we also do the um amount perceived versus like oh yeah I don't know how I I think this I think this information I I do hear what you're saying but when we get we are fortunate to not lose money and get $33,000 wow on $12 million that's saying I didn't I didn't explain it correctly here's what I would like to see the total Aid that we
043get over the last 10 years versus the total Aid that other districts have gotten in right because then even if they say what like in very Equitable enrollments right and and District Factor groups because then even if they say well you know you gotten a little more be like yeah but these districts are very similar to us and they still even if you all of that they gotten significantly more in the last even though you see I tell when I look at the equalization that's where I see I'm G to see something something obnoxious I'd love if you could put the word z e r o down the column I'm not kidding you because if you look at this right and you're looking this to quit the land you may not even realize mon I
044will there are things I can do to make maybe a column that had put I'm not even kidding you and and don't make we get us first don't make it out like it in the middle though no I want us to well I I so yeah I did actually do that so I think we should be first or or lastly or if you do it last we'll get lost in a Big R actually what all right we only have 20 minutes left or we'll work on it oh yeah this is going to be done we'll work on it after okay and then we can look show it up what's next all right so the next one is the um planning for Upstate oh my gosh here we go upcoming State hearings budget testimonies And discussing
045talking points to add to our advocacy page um so I had sent an email um they came out with both the assembly and the Senate hearings um we did share the registration link um I shared it on the agenda I know we discussed also sending out a Blackboard and putting on social media um to have other people register as well the first one is a week from today so they're really not a lot of time as usual so Mr Zach as the Director of communications speak to that Blackboard to make sure all the dates and information would be happy to do that but then in terms of talking points um because I know even like I went to go give testimony last year and I've been involved with this and I was you know trying
046to figure out what to say so if we can maybe also come up with suggestions for talking to it's not telling people what to say but if they need you know ideason this is it so we can say under under the Blackboard kindly be advised these are upcoming dates also for your convenience we have attached our letter as well as the following suggested talking points of course all this is a suggestion however we want to make sure you prepare right there you go yeah this has to be included I you take of your talking point right here I didn't to say that okay and then from what I was told we can you can register for one at each if you want oh you did and so one of them different if people are unable
047to get to fron or New York you have the opportunity to select a remote hearing as well I think I went to New York last year before um yes okay any questions on all right so our next agenda item look I'm do out here got 17 minutes thank you discussing uh the New Jersey school board uh certification requirements yes um this is something that I know like we had discussed when we were first on the board and then Mr P had asked us to look at as well and so I felt like this might be a good place to start and then we can U move forward but um I did reach out to Mary Freedman who is our school board rep um and the way that you earn your credits is you keep them
048for four years so we are about to lose the one one from 2021 I think um all of the requirements are on the School Board website um we did submit our policy manual for review which is one of the um and you you did a followup email some follow email read it sent a followup email they haven't started looking at yet so month n months but we're pretty close to N I think we're right in the middle we're at like seven and a half so I mean it's out of our hands they have it so when they get to it we're not going to finish the other stuff within the next two months anyway so but there's trainings that the board will have to do um a retreat I believe as a full board right
049have a minimum of seven minimum they they said full board when I was at the laste right do we have how many credits do we have did chare that with you yes all right so while you're ping re need 16 right how many credits do you need you need 16 for four years you need four credits a year or can they be back yes I think they well but right but like if we wanted to get it next year the one that we got four years ago would drop if we don't get the rest of so she said there the board has four and a half credits for 16 needed for board certification however the credits are in a rolling fouryear period there are three credits for April 6 2021 strategic planning but those three
050credits will fall off after the you only have one credit um but we just did strategic planning so should well that might have been a training about and not them running it though because they do have a stamp did we just do that well but they we didn't they didn't well they did come in for one meeting to like to talk about what that was for strategic planning but the Strategic plan itself is in a board training so like when they so so when we did with the public which was four sessions that doesn't count correct um so that will fall off in April 2025 and then a half a credit in July okay so we really have basically basically have 16 credits 15 and a half credit and it has the time framework because
051the board changes does it make a difference the board would just have to be willing to right you board so as long as willing it doesn't make a difference when the board changes so the other requirements one as they said is the full day Retreat it says or an equivalent of board workshops so I don't know if that is separate from the group training because a board Workshop seems similar to board training so maybe can get clarification I mean I'm fine with a retreat but that way we know um the policy well check a submission of the most recently ratified teachers contract and completion of the teacher contract settlement survey for the corresponding year of that agreement and you know it's you know our contract is up comeing June 30th we would also need to
052submit a board stop evaluation um and that has be after the superintendent evaluation is done if I remember correctly complying with the mandatory training requirements which we do U satisfy the governance portion isn't that the same thing I oh maybe it's like CAC it part of Education monor process yeah process is going on right now IND performance papate for Charters only that's not now the governance indicators is that meaning that the board members have to complete their governance indicators is for but it's for Charter Schools say meet all governance indicators in the annual performance framework Charter right so there's the mandatory training which is what we know is governance 1 two 3 4 um and then there's the governance portion of the New Jersey Department of Education monitoring process which is what I would assume
053IS F or something similar to that um and then that governance indicators is separate but I guess for us what we would really need to do in order to accomplish this is to really start doubling down on these trainings I feel like when we added it to one of our our I remember us adding the training to one of our meetings like I think it was in 2023 um where um I think it was Miss Reese who to to give us I on there that she sent you which one it was she came to um it was March of 2023 um she came before I think it was a special meeting actually and um it was I think it was supposed to be for that and then we had to take care of other things
054as well um I think it was during a meeting because we had had a I don't remember the topic we had audience that night do you I remember there there was some social media etiquette there the only thing that would be close to that one here is ethics for school officials I think that was no that responsibilities setting board Norms but there's no like social media no that wasn't social media right I I mean maybe it's on I can look up from the agenda um but I think that what we would need to do is whether or not we want to add these to our regular meetings because I think if you maybe get clarification from Miss Freedman um from what I remember these have to be full like open public trainings which require notice
055it can't just be us getting together as a board and having the training unless that was not ACC on to a that's what we had done that one so the retreat is something in and of itself that's own entity we can ask what type of retreat 9 to three 9 to get clarification on training right like is it something that we need to do as like you know a I mean I guess if we have a Karma board it has to be an open meeting right so right then it's a matter whether or not we do special a special meeting and lump a couple of training together or you extend or you you have to open your retreat right oh really you treat it well yeah well I mean we did you when we had
056our budget all day budget sessions on a Saturday it had to be advertised superintendent I I think were to the public yeah you guys do a retreat in Jamesburg is that open to the public yes anybody wants to come in and come in and listen and yes I can send I mean you could if you want to use the current board meetings you could extend it either before right right is there is it how many hours did they say they're mostly an hour or you can do as many as you want together I from what I remember right but my concern doing an hour before is if we need is my cut off if we need majority of MERS love it o in the morning here would be my concern though we if we're doing
057it sorry sorry um if we were to do it beforehand and we need seven board members there is because we have already moved our meetings up from where they used to be right they were starting at 700 and then it was 6:30 now it's 6:15 I'd be concerned that the individuals who are working are not going to be able to to get there you have to inquire to those members who would be willing to participate if they can if they're willing to say yes I will commit right that's what it comes down to because some people may or we just would have to look into a special meeting right or two but they would have to commit for this whole certification process what's that right they'd have to commit for the whole whatever time have
058lasts on the board of education because I think we should get a checklist of what you just said and off each thing as we go and make sure that we have everything that's appropriate for it right I mean I saw on Facebook after this last uh school board's meeting when was that February January there was at least 10 districts that got certified right I think the scataway was one of them um they were actually HED at the school board's meeting right I think so it's on the the link that's is there but we could obviously make a checklist for ourselves have strategic plan um and then you know I think the other thing that I just like I thought maybe we should look at is like the different courses which I added also that are
059being offered is there anything that we would want to to start with right there's you know um boards roll in various things I think we have a relatively young board in the sense that we're pretty much all in our first term um exception of I think one person maybe Dr peek are you in your first term second term first term years well well in general even I was like appointed to finish right so we're basically all in our in our first term um except for Mr trano who's in his second term right and you've been on other boards you're in your first term second time um so there's a lot of like the board's role in budget development right board Ro in curriculum in finance and policy um then there's also like 12 mistakes um
060there's um committee Effectiveness um there's consensus building effective meetings um ethics uh you know there's a lot of these that are listed there's also Communications like effective year round Communications um there's one about evaluations maybe like the board self evaluation is one that we ask for sooner because we haven't done that all of those um listings sound really relevant to what we should do and they all sound good to just what what what order we want to do right and and how do we get them done yes I mean maybe we don't have a meeting in April maybe we look at it potential date I we we can discuss that I can yeah and I can reach out to Maran treatment too and see what um yeah get some more in-depth information about how people
061have been doing this well this will also be discussed in your committee report next week too so it can the board can discuss what their thoughts on so if the purpose is only the training they you still have to have a for full board similar to do re right and a public session yeah yes right and we have to have more than a because we got to have seven people yes you need okay all right um the next item is the um minut question me to remind I did she very discussion okay yeah well we'll go really quick um discussion of the school regionalization efficiency program Grant so this is the grant that allows of districts to submit an application for a study to be done of how to um merge essentially um I know
062that uh Jamesburg has had the presentation um done for them um did you want to talk a little bit about so yeah I I did speak with um an st the Jamber president um and we talked about how they at Jamesburg had had his presentation already um and there was somebody from Ro I think she um and you know it was there was a lot of useful information that came from it um it was definitely recommended that we have a presentation our FS to see like what the process entails and what it looks like um and kind of use that as a starting point really just to see like you know what what I what it looks like and then Is it feasible are are both sides interested in doing this like uh you know
063it's not like yeah we're doing this there's we have to you know take our time here and see what so we had reached out to him um I reached out to him and I hadn't heard back but I I could try again or try reach out to someone else um it does say on the website that the deadline for the application is May 30th um so if this is something that we would want to just do and this doesn't require us to actually do whatever they suggested just means that we are willing to you know give serious consideration to this the thing ultimately it says you will put you have to implenting some of the recommendations so it doesn't have to be a full merger it could just be like supposed to do something all
064right and you already had that done no you just had the presentation like I wonder if they have the presentation online so that way we can look at it and then prior to I did watch um was like hours oh wow um back and forth um it was long it was through row and there was remember what the title was but I looked for like school regionalization so you kind like hear the information um in different settings but it was it's a lot of information it's not just like right this idea is great boom it's it's I just know we've talked about like the idea even if it's not a full merge like I know we were trying to do as much more collaboratively as we can and if we can get money to assist
065with that or at least to study how we can optimize it um if we don't act on it then you know we're using another year of that but if it's not was right for us then you know we shouldn't move forward but I think we just need to get that done yeah we need I think we we need the presentation we need to like hear what what the process entails um and then take it from there if we can get somebody in we don't have a meeting in April we can try to get does somebody present from school boards or who are your kids Rowan has oh through Rowan there's more than one place that do okay that was the our board attorney might know or may be able to give us some a some
066names also he might be able to find know the firm has done I'm sure he's done that through his years yeah yeah uh okay yeah so if we can maybe we look at April for this presentation as well as a Schoolboard training right I know but if we put them together at least we're getting them both done for eight hours no one School breakfast and lunch are you breaking breakfast um all right we only have a minute left I don't want to start talking something we can't really go into too much um but so we just go back we'll go back to the letter yeah I just realized so the third bullet I forgot to take that out so break that little bit about the funding formula and then the zeros in the Monro column
067yeah and add is zero and then M Ratner and I are going is that what you were looking for that in that paragraph something like that with red um yes it's definitely not those districts but I can work with you to figure out what they are just try find um but then I think we I say we can make it more of a bullet but I realized like we're short on space no no we I can play around it so we can work on that now okay is there anything else about the letter because that way we can sort of finalize this ton I think just the Zero from Monroe so they see it all right well we'll finish one minute early instead of going 10 minutes throw them in thank you everybody what else
068could you do like Dr chy