001the meeting or the special meeting of the Monroe Township Board of Education will come to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance get up 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 Steve that's a 15 yard penalty and and a possible fine I all in favor okay so before we have our roll call I need to read a resolution it is recommended that the Board of Education appoint Steve Ryback as temporary board secretary for this meeting in accordance with NJ sa 18a column 16-11 I need a motion in a second second so and Chella Joo all in favor i i i opposed okay then Mr Rybeck is our temporary board secretary this evening thank
002you Mr Ryback and we will have a roll call Mr Armenia here Mr bravman here Mr Chella here Mr Deo here Mrs kapano here Mrs Lang here Mr Corino here I'm here Mr Russo here Mr rutsky I too I'm here Madame board President we have a quarum thank you to read yeah are you supposed to read in accordance with the provisions of uh the New Jersey open public meetings law the Monroe Township Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the date time and place thereof posted May 18th 2018 at all schools home new home News Tribune cranberry press filed with the clerk of the municipality okay at this time we have three resolutions to read and or we don't yes um I am unfortunately compelled to bring this
003up um on I asked earlier uh by email about the meeting now I understand this is a special meeting and our Council just represented that I might be incorrect however I will um express my disappointment that there are three for there are three public forums in our uh District policy at the conduct of meeting dist uh policy 0164 and on tonight's agenda there's only one public meeting public forum you mean I'm sorry one public forum yes and I think um we've had outcries from the public on a regular basis as to uh the public being able to speak when they speak and what topics they can speak on I understand that the Forum will be open to anything not just agenda items however I do object to only one form I was told that it
004was it's a special meeting and that changes the rules but I respectfully disagree we have a policy in place I think a special meeting is called for special business and under the open public meetings act um you just have to give certain notice because it's not generally on the calendar of meetings I think that's the only real difference of a public meeting again I was informed by by our uh attorney that I might be mistaken however for the this is not going to benefit me I this benefits the public and I think that uh we're we're starting to see a pattern where the public is denied access to the board via public forum and it's starting to be disturbing that the last meeting there were only two public Forums on the agenda and tonight there's
005only one um so I would like that to be in the minutes that I had objection to that only one and apparently it's not going to change because I asked the um president prior to the meeting to please change it and she said she would not thank you thank you Miss armeno I did check with our attorney and this is the appropriate um agenda for a special meeting we have three resolutions we're not going to read them we're only going to vote for them so within a few minutes we'll be going to the public forum which anybody could speak to anything on the agenda um it it is something that we have always done as past practice and um I again attorney advice um that I am going by and and since you said past
006practice again I I've I'm an advocate of just because it's been past practice doesn't mean it's been correct practice and I just like to clarify that at the last board meeting we did have three public forums I don't remember that yes we do we always have one for agenda items we have one um before we go into Clos session and we have one when we come out of Clos session for Clos session items only I'll check I'll check the minutes thank you and that is um in in policy yeah yes so at this time we're going to um move a motion for to authorize professional development um that's number five on the agenda I don't we we've never read these in the past before I don't unless somebody needs me to read this I don't
007think we need to there's agenda out in the public so I would need a motion and a second to authorize professional development so I would second that Jill Deo and Mr rutsky is there any comments or questions can can we just read for the public the title at least yes that's number five it's number five motion to authorize professional development and that's for travel expenses resolution right for a member of the board yes okay roll roll call Mr rback Mr aleno yes Mr Braverman yes yes Mr CH yes Mr Dale yes Mrs Lange re yeah Miss quino yes I vote Yes Mr Russo yes Mr rutsky yes Mrs K ponitz yes Madam president a motion passes thank you uh the second um number six on the agenda is a motion to participate in Insurance Consortium
008through New Jersey schools Insurance Group um this information on this was sent to all the board members via email from Mr Gorski on Monday so there I need a motion and a second on this I motion Mrs Lang I'll second that one too second by Mr rutsky any comments or questions on this how often is this come up is it every three years I I'm honestly not sure um I don't know if this is a yearly one or it's ever oh I believe it's in the notes it was three years is I think the way it was presented for Mr Gorski yes I am getting an affirmative fire the board attorney something we already have it's just being rened yes we're just renewing this and it saves us um oh I thought there was a
009a number but I I believe it saves us over a million dollars a year by participating in this Consortium and it ends July 1st 2021 so it's for three years thank you have a question yes can you withdraw at any time I do not know the answer to that well I think that's an important question if if we're going to be stuck for a few years and we're not doing well by this policy it's not a good idea I we're already in it now I we're already participating now I don't know how long we've been participating but this is just a renewal to continue to stay in this yeah but that okay you want to call me that doesn't that doesn't change Mr question but I I do not have the answer to that question
010it's just a different answer yeah okay we'll have a roll call Mr sure right back Miss armino uh this is the njsi right yes all right well I'll say yes okay Mr Braverman Mr cherell yes Mr Mayo yes Mr Lang yes Mr quarino yes I vote Yes Mr Russo and I'll abstain too because we haven't been given enough background information I understand understand it's a renewal but again it goes back to that who's selecting these uh options is it only one person selecting them uh so I think we need a little more background and and that it's quite a big price tag for this as well thank you Mr rutsky yes Mrs K Pon yes mam president motion passes okay number seven motion to become a member of the fair funding action committee and I'll
011I can explain this after um Motion in a second I um you're going to move this second Miss armino Mrs Lang okay comments or questions from anyone before I kind of explain this okay so last night uh a number of us uh myself Mr Ryback Miss armino U Mrs Lang and the board uh um board the business administrator board secretary Mr Gorski attended a New Jersey school board um presentation in Monroe Schools um we had it at Brookside school they asked if we can have this um presentation in our school because it was regarding Fair funding for districts that are underfunded at this time so they were looking to host a number of presentations in different schools that are underfunded so we said yes and we had a it was very interesting and very informative
012and what they have done is create a fair funding action committee from for the state of New Jersey and we're looking to just to the purpose of this is to advocate for our District's funding by not just the board or the administration but this is how to get the community involved in advocating for funding and since this is a a time where the budget is being looked at over and over again and the money is being allocated we thought this was a good time to put it on our agenda today so it would be the Monroe Township um we it would be the monach fair funding action committee so we would be having our our community coming underneath the New Jersey fair funding action committee you get shirts excuse me are we getting any shirts
013shirts if you would like a shirt I can get you a shirt miss Mr Mayo um my question is New Jersey school boards for the past eight years hasn't done anything regarding funding I've been to many committee meetings where funding is being talked about they have never spoken up in terms of funding for districts um and they speak at a lot of these State Legislative committee meetings what are they going to do for us with this this is from and Mr Ryback you can correct me if I'm wrong I'm I'm guessing that New Jersey school boards is sponsoring this I don't think the fair funding action committee is necessarily A New Jersey school board committee it is a committee of new of representatives from throughout New Jersey who belong to New Jersey school boards who
014have districts that are underfunded they started this Fair funding action committee okay so are they going to can I add to that yes this is actually a subgroup the women from and women board members from um Kingsway and from Chesterfield who have been very very active in fighting Fair funding and explain the whole process especially how it was impacting their two districts and um as in fact the woman from Kingsway said that their students have their track is condemned and they can't even run track because of their lack of funding and how it's hurting so they have been fighting like we have for years and their their bigger problem had been that they were not able to get their legislators to listen to them they have in the re by the actions that they've been
015taken actually changed one of their particular legislators and he is now fully on board to helping them fight the senator from Chesterfield yes from and so what they're doing is that they have come up with it they've actually come up with um scripts they've come up with letters that you can send and they're really trying to push because what they've done is identify that it's no longer that we need to get our senators and assemblymen on board for the most part they are on board like we know that we've had ours on board here in Monroe but what the issue is is now to get this the governor to open his eyes so they have Sweeney on board they're working with the head of the Senate budgetary um so they have Sweeney they have the
016assembly person on board they're really trying to change the way that Governor Murphy is looking at it and so they presented last night a wonderful video even about how we got to where we are in funding and how the law has never been enacted how it was found to be illegal up until 2010 to even enact the sfra um so it very it was a very good meeting last night in the dark by the way because we lost power and we sat there people didn't leave we we actually had this meeting in the dark at Brookside school and the whole idea is to how to motivate now to get just so that it's not just board members going to Trenton how do we get more Community involvement and they gave great hints and they have
017some really good ideas of how to move the process along because it's a matter of us now calling and talking to uh on almost a daily basis the I think I wrote it down thank you yeah um we're supposed to it's an aid the Govern a to the governor a to the thank you that's it that's it thank you my brain went may I uh yes so I apologize for not attending that meeting yesterday I didn't even know that it was going on actually I got a number of uh emails from our committee people from our Fair funding committee people asking what was going on and if there was a meeting that they weren't invited to um I had I went to the uh the chorus concert uh at the middle school and the dedication
018to M perq which was beautiful by the way um so I didn't get to partake in this but I can tell you that um my feeling is that if we're not going to sue and we're not going to take it to the streets and fight these guys and then there's really no reason to do this I don't want to see another vehicle created where um where we're just creating a vehicle for our future for our politicians next year and in November and next November and year November after that to resurrect this issue gain popular support by get reelected and then do nothing again just like they've done uh this this last time so we have a governor who promised us Fair funding that he was going to change the funding we had our legislators promis
019us that they were going to uh fund the funding formula and change all these things and then they get reelected and they go it's going to take years but we're going to get to it they're not going to get to it we need to sue so what I'd like to do is if we want to do this that's great I'll vote for it if everyone here tonight will let me make a motion and vote to sue the state and then we could we could really go at it and make some news here and make a splash if we're not going to do that then we're just we're wasting our time we're wasting my time and I don't have time to waste I I did check with school boards and it was a school board sponsored
020um event or presentation so I had asked if our community members could attend and I was told no it was just for school board members only because I thought it would have been a great opportunity to have our funding um people come and listen to what they were telling us Mr armino uh to specifically a answer Jill's question um it seemed to me that school boards just sponsored the group that's an action committee they are they are uh school board members but also they were I I actually I came in a few minutes late so were they school board members those three women okay so they were school board members but I don't think they're really affiliated with the New Jersey school boards I think New Jersey school boards put together which by the way
021is going to be on their website maybe we can we can put a link to it on ours um about how school um school funding is determined they talked about all of the issues so I think they just gave an inform information forum and then the other three women are activists and and basically what they said to to your situation um they're really they were not happy with um any of the politicians and they're there their recommendation is that we really Hammer politicians with uh handwritten letters and phone calls so the the the petition and all that stuff that we've signed in the past I totally agree with you that went nowhere it's almost like they didn't care they just look so it's not really the board going to uh do something with the politicians
022what it is is our board when we have people coming up and asking us what they what we want them to do the answer is call your legislator and write a letter to your legisl what we could facilitate is maybe some of the language and encourage people to do it but this is and because I agree with you it's not about promoting the um the legislators because they for 17 years we haven't gotten anything we've gotten less than than anything so uh they're they're more activists they're looking to actually give uh people in communities a an Avenue to direct complaints to the politicians so I don't think it was so favorable to politicians because they really didn't speak that way no this is a lot of community members want to get involved and they don't
023know how they don't know who to call they don't know what to write so this group will tell you this is the script this is who you should call this is you should call every day call these people uh you you're your legislators your especially the governor and this organization will tell you what to say who to call and how to do it and okay for that point uh Kathy then how are we getting that if we're joining this what are we going to do for our public to it to actually make to to to to sponsor either activities how are we getting this information because what good is it for us just to be part of this if we're not working with the members of our community so how is this going to transfer
024is my question to members of our community for Action well hopefully we can create some kind of a Facebook page with links to the you know the original um Fair funding um let me just find the name of the group again the fair funding action committee and have have a link to them they're going to send us all the information if we can get it on our website and then have a link to a Facebook page or something where people look all the time uh and we can update that with any new information that comes in that would be um yeah but we still need to promote it in a way that results in action right not just I think we just need action yeah and I and I and I apologize for cutting you
025off but but but we need we need action we we don't need more words and more Facebook pages and more emails and more cakes or whatever we need we need to fight and we need to do something they're not listening they don't care they don't care they they the the politicians care about one thing they care about themselves how much money they're making what how beautiful they look to the public and that's it and this is I could be totally off base here but from what I understand with Kings Way and stuff and and everything like that that their Senator is Senator Sweeney am I wrong no you're correct one of them so so Senator Sweeney was one of the guys out there a proponent of funding education and getting us more funding and now
026he's turning around and telling them to to fight and to sue that's what I've heard that he's telling his own District to do and uh so it doesn't give me much hope that that's where that that's where we're at because if if if that's what the Senators are saying well then where's our Senator where's our where where are our assemblymen cuz should be here telling us to Sue and they should be backing us up the same way instead I don't know where they are our Fair funding committee that are members right here they're begging to get a to get an audience with our with our with our members and that's not right I Senator Greenstein did finally reach back out but I know that uh Mr uh uh Mr PAB Dr PAB uh Mr POI
027they've all been reaching out to uh to our Senators and our assembly people to to uh to do a monthly meeting to do a meeting again with them for our funding committee and they're and they're getting to runaround we we we have to make sure that they understand and we speak their language and what's their language Rebellion that's it that's all they understand when we're fighting them then they understand that we mean business other than that they go send me another email I'd love to have another email from Monroe and delete well the the woman the board member from Chesterfield told us that their Senator was not on board with this at all and they she they I think two of them from Chesterfield would call him up and they would hang up on he
028would hang up on them so he wouldn't even talk to them and he would get I think she was saying 5 to 15 calls a day from the constituents and he ignored it until he was getting 50 60 100 150 calls a day he turned around and he's now supporting funding reform and and that's what we have to do we have to get we have 42,000 people in this District we need to get people to call every day and just because this is budget time Kathy I understand you and Miss kov I understand you and I and and I'm not I hate I'm sorry to to drag this out but but I'm but what what I'm trying to tell you is we're the elected officials the people vote for us we're a representative we're a
029representative Republic not a democracy and what the people want from us is to put us in power and then have us fight they tell us you this is what we want you to do we put our platform out and say this is what I stand for they say yes or no once they say yes then we have a mandate we have to March forward and we have to do it they're telling us that they want us to fight they told me they want me to fight they don't want us to tell them back okay you want me to fight this is this is the fight that I want you to take go write an email and call the senator every day and I'm going to go play golf they want us to fight and that's
030what I I'm here to do I after this is over I'm going to make a motion that we sue the state our attorney right here and we'll get we'll put it give it to her Mr Russo yeah no I I think when this was right before Ken was elected to the board the second time when we started the the fair funding and the letter writing campaign we started to pick up a lot of momentum and interest from the public and I think we were on the right track and uh there were certain board members who did not want to U have the letter uh directed toward uh Greenstein right and I don't want to go into the details but um they discouraged me from pushing it and uh told me to hold off and wait
031till the end of the year and by then it was too late uh new board was um new board members were elected you were voted president uh Ken was appointed as chair of the uh uh committee for fair funding and from my point of view what happened from that point was the Fair funding effort all that momentum and energy that was being built up was directed towards and the results prove it helping uh green sign get reelected there was one person who won with the with our Fair funding effort one person made out very well that was her we didn't after that we got some crumbs and now it looks like we're not going to get anything for last meeting when uh when um Miss Lang read some information about a meeting that she went
032to when they said in four years which is again the election year so the point is the letter writing campaign was brought up as something that we've done in the past and didn't work but it's not about what we did in the past and it didn't work it's about when you do it this was that was an election year that was the time to exploit that situation and say look you guys are running for office then you need to deliver for us not to get us to work to get them reelected and then a lot of promises because that's what happened if I if I may too and I and Frank I I'm I'm contradicting everybody tonight and I don't mean to but I'm going to tell you I it's not a Democrat versus Republican
033issue it's a it's a mon versus the State issue we have people we you know in residents in this in this in this town Democrats and Republicans who are suffering who are who are trying to pay their taxes the taxes keep going up we we don't help the situation and they need relief now it's up to us to to to give them that so you know did did politicians use the fair funding committee I guess but I don't but I also can tell you that Republicans would could use it too you know they could I'm not making it a political think it depends on the town it's an election year yeah it was an election year I I totally I totally I agree with you I'm not I'm not saying what I'm saying though is
034that I I don't want this fight I don't want this fight to be a Democrat versus Republican fight because what it is is it's a Monroe citizens against the state fight and that's where it has to stay because that Unity Democrats and Republicans and Independence together fighting for fair funding that's what's going to make us win us fighting amongst ourselves between Democrats and Republicans who supports whom that gets us that's just going to keep us fighting each other we need to we need all to come together and we need to then light our torches and grab our pitchforks and go to Trenton that way that's right and that's the only way we're going to do so I I but that's what we didn't do that's the point that's what we didn't do we we use
035your mic yeah the whole effort closer the whole effort was steered okay and uh you know she came here and spoke to us right she threw around the figure of $5 million there were a lot of people in the public who believe $5 million was coming they bought it because they came up to the mic just waiting for that money no I I I I I don't I know who they are I'm I remember what they said no that's okay Mr Braverman would like toad Mr I apologize I just trying to be a realist a few weeks ago the governor settled with the state employees a day after he settled there was an article in the paper that said he didn't know where he was getting the money to pay them excellent just finded $150
036million for a cleanup in this state the governor said he's taken 75 million to plug his budget if you want to sue I think it might be thinking out of the box not only to sue the government but Sue our legislators as individuals that might get get them to look at us but otherwise you're spinning your wheels they do they get elected they make promises and then they start raising money for their next election and that's the reality anyone else but I feel better that we're going to have a Facebook page okay Mr Ryback we'll have a roll call okay this is for uh uh This Is Us to become a member of the fair funding action committe right uh Mrs armeno for optimistic wishful thinking I'll vote Yes can her Mr braan sure it
037makes everybody feel good M gella yes Mr May yes m lang yes Miss Corino yes I'll vote Yes Mr Russo with some res reservations I'll I'll vote Yes but I would like to see what the plan is Mr rutsky yes this is kapano yes madame president motion passes thank you madam president Madam president or attorney is trying to get your attention yes yeah he voted yes may I uh Mr address the group I would like to make a motion that we sue the state uh for fair funding and um and move forward whether we sue them individually or sue them all together and one bucket I don't care I just want to start fighting them I want them to take note and take notice and I want them to make good on their promises they
038promised us funding they came here and promised us millions of dollars they told us they were going to get us all these things and Pie in the Sky and the net result was just like you said Mr Russo we what did we get hundred and something thousand after you know after all was said and done um I just think that at this point it enough's enough and we need to put our money where our mouths are if we're going to create Facebook pages then let that Facebook page say Monroe Township sues the state of New Jersey for fair funding so I like I before we go there that a motion what before we have conversation is that a motion got a motion on thank you who second it Mr BR second by Mr bman okay
039now we can open it up for discussion yeah I I just I would like um if Mr rodsky would like to say something because his um know about Jamesburg because I wasn't really prepared but what do you want me to talk about well let us know what you guys are doing you you guys are suing the state we're not suing the state um you well we oh I you know what I take that back we are part of and I don't know my notes with me okay um but we are part of a it's either 17 or 19 School District um also Consortium will call us and we are suing the state for for our version of fair funding uh it it's more of a specific we qualify as a specific school with specific stats
040and with these other schools um but yes we are part of that and and it has progressed a few levels to this point I really wish I had my notes so I could give you a better update and I think and thank you Mr ruty because I think that a good argument that we have is that your specific needs they have criteria your criteria that those students then come here so we share that criteria and I'd like that to be our one of our bases you know for our lawsuit did you have your hand up I was just wondering what would be the basis for the lawsuit we we we have an in-house attorney and I think we could we should look hard and and look deeply into what that uh would entail and how
041we could do it but I think we need to do it and I think that if Jamesburg can sue Jamesburg students come here and they should there are students too but I think then we have we that that that that should also be our fight then why couldn't we be part of your Consortium we didn't call Monro District doesn't have the meet the criteria of this group and James the fact that we have 250 to 300 of your kids doesn't it's about 270 but it doesn't uh that doesn't play into it on the whole right Monroe stats don't meet whatever the criteria were for this group of fair funding participants Paul that was the Newton superintendent Newton yes so the Newton superintendent of schools basically came up with an arbitr figure as to what groups
042that he was going to look at and because when this came up but we had questioned it why weren't we invited to be in it and they just said that we didn't fit the criteria that they were looking for because of of the way that our schools are funded and how we reached their own efficient so we were disqualified from being in their group at to sue right because actually the the soon as that happened and we became part of it I forwarded it to our Administration think the Monroe Administration thinking okay you're next and and then I was told back that it didn't uh it doesn't they don't meet mon because I know Dr coak called right away both you and Newton to see if they could be we could be part of that
043and he was told no because of the criteria that we just did not fit right well I I don't I I and I understand that I and I understand I say be careful what you wish for right so meeting the criteria for that lawsuit is not a a special privilege right it means we we deal with our own challenges and our own struggles right but I also live in the United States and I pretty much know that everybody sues everybody for anything so I think we could come up with an argument yeah but there is a difference between suing the state because that's what you're asking and looking into suing the state I'm done looking we' we've already asked to look into it and we get the same answer it's not it's not viable we
044shouldn't do it uh let's write an email uh I would like to I would like for us to sue the state and see what happens and if it doesn't work then it doesn't work but at least maybe maybe somebody will wake up and they'll say uhoh this there's a revolution happening in Monroe we need to quell the violence we need to stop the people from Uprising we need to keep our voters in check and maybe they'll come here and do something for us but that's part of the problem we don't have the community Uprising yet we all come here and we talk about funding but nobody's actually contacting I mean you're don't where the uprising they put us here I got 8,083 votes in the last election the people telling me to fight and do
045this I done nothing but want to fight this for that whole time 8,083 people more votes than anyone's ever got not only on the board of ed but in the town and I'm not bragging I'm just telling you that the people have put their voice behind me they asked me to fight and I'm fighting so here it is the fight's here M Armenia I I vote Yes for you but but the point is we're fighting with uh taxpayers money I'd like to know what what the goal is and I I honor you and respect your position but we need to know what the goal is because the state has attorneys on uh you know they have all kinds of attorneys and the thing they like most to do is to go to court and you
046know Bill and do billable hours so I think we have to be prudent about it I'm not adverse to it but I think I'd like to know what the plan is what's our goal of course our goal is to get more money but how much because they could wait us out that's what I'm afraid of they could and that's what I'm saying I I'd like to see the plan and what we're going to do and how we're going to do it but that's to to look into suing the state not to actually do it because we don't know what the cost is to the community Mr chel is right if we if it's a double-edged sword if we don't vote Yes for this then it doesn't go really forward it does it goes nowhere if
047we do vote yes we're sort of just throwing it out there with no real plan and that's not something I've ever been comfortable with so I don't know how I I'm I'm like ambivalent about it I think it's a good idea I think the the community has screamed for it but how much do you want to spend millions of dollars can go into this that come that comes away from instructional um situation so and will it will we win I I I personally think in conjunction with going to the state we ought to all show up and I've said this before at the Township council meeting because our enrollment is 100% due to the planning board which is by the way tomorrow night and the zoning board and the township Council who are allowing these
048massive developments to occur so if we really want to fight it's a lot closer to go across the street and let them know that high density is a bonus to the developers not to the community you know the high density um you know we're putting affordable housing in and I personally am a am an you know a proponent of affordable housing giving people equal opportunity to live in this fine Community but the builders are getting bonus density they're getting high dens they're only putting about 20% affordable housing in and they're getting 80% market rate they're getting rich and they're paying our legislators to not go forward with things so if you want to get pitchforks and and torches I mean figuratively not literally um we need to go across the street more often than maybe
049sue sue the sue the state that's just a point of view Mrs Lang Mrs armo I so agree with with what you have just said I want you to Ken I I do believe that we need to to do something and do something drastic I just want to know what is it going to cost us like that is my fear like what do we put a cap on what it's going to cost us so that we're not spending $5 million2 million I just that those those little bit of unknowns or you know what I I that's what I want to know so I don't know how the right way to do this is do we have change the wording of this motion on the table we have yeah no you you could you could amend
050a motion amend the motion Mr Russo as much as I I would support the the suit the thing I I see is I do I would like to see a plan first and here's here's the reason why when that fair funding committee started and I brought this up back then um that we didn't look at all the options I mean if you're going to have a committee which is going to develop a strategy you look at the options that you that you can take all right to to to get the goal that you want we talked about a number of things and I brought them up at the at the board meeting one was even looking at becoming a charter school I know everybody would jump at that but it was just an option a
051lawsuit was another uh supporting uh Senator green sign was another writing a letter uh you know to get her to move was was another or or to write to both candidates all of those options should have been carefully studied and developed and they weren't Senator Greenstein came in made an offer I you know she let everybody around and from then on the the the committee just took on a life of its own in support of her the whole program that and that's one of the reasons why I couldn't see going along with it anymore because it wasn't the committee that was developing a strategy what it was I just have to correct that because it wasn't the Frank the only the only game in town are the Democrats I don't know if you've seen out
052there I mean there there's one Republican councilman in Monroe the rest are Democrats the state is entire entirely run by democrats or at least uh our district so when you want to when you reach out to work with government you have to work with the people who are in power that's the whole that's the whole that's the whole way of of doing it and getting anything I was right here and I said it what we're going to do is we're going to take one option it's not going to work we're going to jump to a second and then a third we had everyone here not just Linda Greenstein then we had the Republicans come we had everybody we had we had everybody as part of our committee we looked at everything the the the the
053the Democrats at that time came they had an idea to go to the state okay we're going to one time political I'm just saying though it wasn't you know I want you to understand i i r I ran the the I you know I I was chair of the committee I was not sitting here in a shill for Linda Greenstein and for the for for I was I was here fighting for funding and that's what it was all about and and what happened when I said let's go to the other side now and hear all sides not just the Democrats what happened Mr let let the Republicans then the you know then the Republicans came in and we listened to them and we and we heard their side and that and that's what we did
054but but but at that point then people were dropping away and then the Democrats got upset because we had the we weren't uh we weren't here for them and then we went and we we marched on Linda greenstein's office we did the our committee and we delivered a letter to her you were there and and uh and and and and so we did those things so it wasn't a one-sided we didn't do anything except a catery to the Democrats we were doing everything we possibly could within the confines of where we live which is which is run by democrats if you want to get something done you have to work with the people who are elected if people want to work with Board of Ed members to get something done they're not going to go
055to White Castle and talk to people there they're going to come to us CU we're the we're the people who elected even if they don't like us and a lot of people don't like us but I but that's that's that's just reality Ken what I'm saying is if if the committee had functioned the way I expected the committee to function right now you would have more details and specifics about a lawsuit because that option would have been developed we wouldn't be doing it now would have been done back then you don't just go with one option follow the senator all of those things should have been developed there should have been a group assigned to each one and let them devel I believe I believe that was what was happening with that fair funding committee
056where's the plan for the for the lawsuit because there is no plan Frank I'm not an attorney and our and our and our group isn't an attorney we have an attorney on staff though and all I'm saying is let's vote to put it in her hands if she comes back and says it's not viable we can't do it and we go to an outside attorney and they say it's not viable we can't do it Go away You're you guys are going to fail then that's fine we need to we need to the plan what are the criteria what are you okay so Mr may I just say something if we wanted to do this to see if it's a viable action then we have to make a motion to look at suing the state not
057to sue the state it's very different and at at this point I I don't think nobody we I I made a motion months ago about for us to look into suing the state and I said that I wanted the backing for our group to be able to do that and everybody voted yes and then it didn't go anywhere so you know we we and then I'm hearing that we don't we we don't have uh there's no will to do it uh the the uh you know the the the the senator and the assembly people won and we're just having meetings and basically spinning our Wheels if we're not going to put any teeth into it then don't do it and and and then we could just at least we know that the Facebook page and
058this other stuff that everybody wants to do now is also useless and it's not going to get us anywhere so at least we're at least then we're being honest with the public Mrs Lang Mr Chella okay first of all I'd like to volunteer my time because that's what I do so I like to volunteer my time to help but I I just wrote up a little amendment to your resolution that if I think if we give it one month's time to put this plan together and literally one month and that's why I said I would volunteer my time to help do this to put the plan together so I would like to I'd like to make a motion no you would like to amend a motion ask him to amend the motion I'd like to
059make asking you to amend the resolution to develop a plan including cost timeline and desired outcome comes in order to bring this back to the board of ed for the purpose of filing a lawsuit against the state of New Jersey and that we would have this ready to be brought to the board back to the board of ed for discussion at our June meeting and and I and and I just want to say I don't know that you can do that in a month's time it's not even a month so I don't know that you even want to put a timeline on that because put no we have to put a timeline two two or three months like or just June or July meeting so that we can we have to have a timeline so
060that tough with everything that we have going on right now okay I'm I'm open to amending that if we have a timeline to to so would you is J I would need to have a second to you want me to read when I well she has it she has it written down right so should we to bring it back to the board meeting for July Mr R you wanted to be secretary this what Mrs Lang bring it back Mrs Lang I'm sorry so read your motion the way you you would like your amendment to be okay read that Amendment uh I amend the amend the resolution to develop a okay to develop a plan including cost timeline and desired outcomes in order to bring back to bring this to the Board of Ed at our
061July meeting so that we can move forward in discussion of filing a lawsuit against the state of New Jersey now I need a second to that Amendment second I'll second who second it Michelle Michelle Michelle so Michelle is seconding the revised the motion to revise okay hang on one second so that was Patty Lang and Michelle armeno so we we need a roll call well he needs to agree right I agree he I thought he had agreed but we need a roll call to accept the amendment to the motion to add the amendment to the motion okay okay um M [Laughter] yes Mr Braven oh I'm sorry no no Mr Chella yes Mr Mayo yes Mr Lang am I allowed to vote Yes yes Miss quarino yes I vote Yes Mr Russo yes Mr rutsky
062I was told by Council I have to abstain on this one yeah I think you have to Mrs k p yes okay motion passes to um to amend am the motion so now we have to vote is there still comments and questions I have comments related to the original well now the original one is gone we now have an amended motion not the original motion the original the the the fair funding accepting the fair funding thing we did that yeah well that's over you voted already I know but I have questions well that's over I have a question so we we we're now discussing the which is a new motion which is Mrs Lang's motion I have a question yes uh I want to call on my colleague Mr rutsky again uh since you guys
063were um gotten along so far with this lawsuit can you give any insight on how you developed criteria what you use well I will say that we um I first I'll say I don't know how far along we are in practicality as far as getting an outcome but I know we've had a few updates along the way of of of you know jumping hurdles or what have you but um we didn't set it up new town did Newton developed the criteria and they just um and invited districts I see so we didn't yeah we didn't start this from the ground up um and we didn't develop the criter they develop the criteria and they saw that you fit into that correct argument which you know so you can set up your own version of criteria
064and you can invite other people to that are similar to monell which I would be surprised if that hasn't already been thought of but um there is strength in numbers 19 schools is more powerful than one school I'm just wondering if uh the school that started the criteria if maybe they can shed some insight on how they did it I promise you when I get home I'll go back to my original notes and see how this all started and see what I can get for you from that from the original motion can can I ask something can we also get the PowerPoint the ladies we're going to be we're going to be getting that and can we also reach out to New Jersey school boards and ask them why are they not actively involved in
065this issue because this is the number one issue across the state and they do not get involved in it at all and that's a disgrace it is it really is they need to be involved they need to speak up for all the people who are paying them can I just say that I think interestingly enough they speak I've seen School boards speak when they don't want the schools that are going to be reduced in their funding to be penalized that's where I've seen school boards put energ and that's when they speak up is you know you've been giving as Michelle says past practice doesn't necessarily make it right so they've been giving XYZ 100 million we can't pull them back to only 80 million how will they ever survive well there are there are so
066that that's when Schoolboard speaks up unfortunately not on behalf of towns like Monroe need the extra 20 we pay them they need to speak for us too I completely agree sorry that that's okay there are some districts that get 170% of their taxes of their um school aid um a lot of them get over 100% 166 147% and then you have all the unfunded underfunded districts so um there's no comments left or questions we can vote on the original amend original motion with Mrs Lang's Amendment and then Mrs Lang if we could have that written down so that we could send it to Mr Gorski sure okay that was a good idea yes we're going to need that because I didn't write that down um so we'll have a roll call read it again if
067you would like read it again right okay so um a motion to develop a plan including cost timeline and desired outcomes in order to bring to our July meeting to further the discussion regarding filing a lawsuit against the state of New Jersey for fair funding is that is that right you I think you just added stuff I'm just making sure I just I added the fair funding at the end because it was a lawsuit against y you can't add okay never mind against the state of New Jersey no right because that was what we voted on so you cannot add something to iterally all right so going a transcript the when we read this when we look at it again nobody will know what we're talking no oh so we'll have a motion on um
068a roll call okay Mrs Armenia yes Mr braan yes yes Mr cherel yes Mr Mayo yes Mr Lang yes M Corino yes I vote Yes Mr Rus yes Mr rutsky uh abstain obain this call upon yes motion passes thank you hey than thank you so at this time we mad president Mr Braverman can I just make one statement sure would if you really want to make an impact hit the national news why don't we have a couple of hundred kids take the state to small claims court and sue them for their own tuition well that's thinking out of the box that's getting people involved and you'll all be on television you'll all be reelected Mary Smith please take a note okay we're going to move on with the agenda so we're go to public forum
069anyone wishing to speak I thought it was a good idea it was the kids would have to pay for it though and that would we'll pay for it no we're not going to go there anyone wishing to speak please come up to the microphone give your name and address for the record we have a 4minute time limit and um you can speak to the agenda or off the agenda Anthony preso a question way uh you should sue for discrimination because they're discriminating against our kids because we're we're taking care of our kids so they expect us to pay more that's the problem okay from last week I asked the president of the board when was Dr kak informed about not re his contract not being renewed you asked me last time and I'm asking you
070again it was March 27th okay who signed it and gave it to him I will not speak about the contract did the board vote on this uh letter or whatever was handed to him telling him he wasn't going to be renewed Dr Contra a Dr kak contract is a person matter and therefore is by Statute confidential I'm just asking if they were voted on I will not speak to the contract see you skate around it all the time I I cannot everybody here knows that there should be a vote on this contract on the re the letter that you gave him was it voted on I cannot answer that question okay you know I'm here today last last time I was here there was 100 people in here the teachers came here because they wanted
071their contract and I think the the teachers deserve their contract but I'm a little disappointed you know we don't have a superintendent I'm up here fighting because there's nepotism and cronyism in the schools and the teachers tell me this and I don't see any teachers here today I'm glad the union reps are here I'm glad you're here but they should be here fighting for that man's job because he's helping you and we should have a superintendent and we see the board is skating around every question that's being asked what's it's a simple question did the board vote on his contract on his on his letter to to say that he wasn't going to be reinstated it's all I'm asking you know the teachers need to get up here and voice their opinion thank you [Applause]
072Victor Cooper 525 Abbot Court Monroe I have a couple of things one I want to support Mr Chell and his effort to go and Sue the state the state representatives that we have have skirted around this issue endlessly over time I had a discussion with uh Senator Greenstein when we didn't get our funding originally and what she told me was the Democrats have a plan and when that plan is implemented we will get our full funding I said what's your plan she said she said to have a millionaires tax I said lots of luck that will never float in New Jersey that was her plan in order to get more money rather than use the money that's supposed to be dedicated to funding schools she was going to try and get more money going around
073to a millionaires tax which of course never is going to happen so I'm glad you exploring suing the state because I think the time for that has long since passed the other thing I wanted to talk about and I'm talking about this without full knowledge and I know that I know I know don't know what I don't know but I think it's reprehensible that a man like Dr kak Who I have worked with for about two years as a result of being on Mr cheer Ella's committee and before that I am absolutely shocked that a person that I think the highest possible regard for have the highest possible regard for who I have sat in one-on-one with him and one and with other people him him present not in the school board meetings but in
074his office in the Board of Ed and I am so thoroughly impressed by his talent his wisdom and the way in which he conducts him s that we would not extend this man's contract I think it's a sin and it's going to hurt us in the long [Applause] run good evening Andy poori 16 St James Street quite honestly folks I come here hoping that I don't have to get up to the microphone and uh have a conversation but every time I come here I want to jump out of my skin to talk to you because the last half an hour 45 minutes of conversation is like a lay person's conversation here and I'll tell you why I say that but before I say that first of all I want to thank the board for renewing
075the contract for the teachers thank you very much I know it's a team effort and we appreciate that next thing is Paul ratsky I'm extremely impressed with your participation on the board and I wish more more board members are knowledgeable of the knowledge that you represent when you come to the board thank you very much um with the permission of my chair Ken cherala Ken if it's okay with you want to share what has transpired in the past few days um we were talking about suing the state we have looked into that as a part of the fair fair uh funding committee we have had a couple of meetings since then we've been sidetracked quite honestly by the board and the polititions in the sense that we wanted to have a meeting every month with
076them and come up with a plan on the items that we can sue the state on suing the state is a great idea but what are you going to sue them on you're not giving enough money so I'm going to sue you that doesn't work that way and I think our board attorney has looked into it and she spoke to at least to the uh our board chair or the committee chair for the fair funding on it we were very close to identifying at least one or two items one of them being transportation and our legislative team is working with us to identify that and said this is the area that you can sue if anybody's sitting here and saying that our legislators are not telling us to sue that's a wrong information they are
077telling us to sue but they want us to be careful on what we're suing for okay now we talked about it almost as if the fair funding committee hasn't done anything and I question you guys on what you're doing the reason is the the the Senate budget committee is having hearings over the past few weeks did any one of you bother to go to this state senate budget hearing meetings thank you there are kids from this Township their members of the public are going to these meetings to discuss it I myself along with two other people testified in front of the budget committee on Monday do you know the tact I took to bring mro Township to the front to the Forefront of the discussion was to say that1 130 million $135 million is the
078budget for our schools you pay $3 million to US on top of that through the gun because of the lack of gun restrictions our security Personnel got to be paying a little bit more and the T and the Board of Education needs to bear that additional money Paul Soro got it and he said Andy thank you very much for coming and saying it but you know that this is not about school funding I said with all due respect Senator this is not about school funding but at the end of the day the bill got to be paid for by the board of education so there are lot of different ways we can do this in terms of funding I don't know if you saw the newspapers $45 million short of the projections they had by
079the time the budget goes out in the state so the state needs money and at the end of the day irresp to how much we we fight I know we're entitled for another $5 million but it's fully funded what I'm expecting right now and I also had a conversation with Steve Sweeny at the same meeting all these Senators Walk The Halls If We Walk The Halls we can have a one-on-one conversation with these guys I think we're going to get another maybe double it for what we're getting which is maybe 750 or 800 that's penuts but from their perspective they're doubling the aid they're given us so that's the big disconnect is we're not going to get the $5 million what we're going to get is incremental so we are doing things as Ken mentioned
080we are looking at ways to sue the State and we are meeting with the the state senator and the two assembly men in the next couple of weeks the meeting is forthcoming thank you thank you prakash pup 33 D drive prakash pup 33 D drive thank you guys June 30th the budget will be finalized wake up I have come and said several times right letters go and Lobby none of yall me and Dr Croak in first week of April April 10th or 11th went and gave a testimony and there were your Chester whatever you District you talk they were there small children 7 years old children came and spoke gave a testimony there and you guys were not there now what is the day today May 23rd and June 30th the budget is finalizing and
081now you are thinking to Sue and decide in July guys you are too late you know my friends we already wrote 70 letters okay I told in the last meeting draft a letter and send it we are already sent a letter I'll send you all tomorrow the copy of that what we wrote to the governor and the legislatures so you guys are late anyway think over it now I'm coming today's special meeting okay so I have specific questions I have sent to you President yesterday did Boe follow the bylaws with respect to reappointment of superintendent Dr kak and I will say that Dr kak's contract is a Personnel matter and therefore by Statute is confidential as indicated previously Dr kak's employment by the Monroe Township Board of Education terminates effective June 30th 2018 the board
082will make no further comment regarding the superintendent as the board does not commit comment comment on pending legal matters I will okay pending legal matters thank you we are taking notes I'll repeat another one question did Boe president follow the bylaws with respect to the decision of reappointment of supered Dr kak as per the law 187-201 and again I will tell you that the the superintendent's contract is a personal matter and therefore deemed confidential the decision the third question the decision on the reappointment of superintendent Dr kak was by majority vote in Boe again the super superintendent contract is deemed confidential and therefore cannot be discussed by the board in public okay we are taken those notes thank you now one thing now don't come up and tell me we are busy with writing this
083funding and all that be the students are here teachers are here they're waiting what youall are doing for the children so in June my understanding is we will have what will be the next referendum and what it contains secondly in June you all will decide about the homework policy third where is what is happen happening with the policy with respect to arming our officers security officers okay that those are the three important things please president can you please tell me what is happening with the referendum please and when we'll have the referendum and always for last four months we are telling that when you come up with a referendum please include middle school high school expansion and kindergarten full de in the garden so that is our request and we want to see the projections
084of the school what is the projections taking and a very smart decision we want smart decision and we want to hear from you can you do it please in June uh I I can tell you right now that the homework policy will be discussed in June the security officer policy has already been passed so uh as of right now we have I know two schools that have our own inhouse armed security um five five schools as of today would you like to respond to that Mr Pio as of today five our schools use the microphone please so it's on Miss P could you just use Mr braverman's microphone we we have five schools that have our own security uh three more we're still working with Monroe police and by the and by the end of
085next week we'll have our own in-house security thank you office thank you what about the referend mam president at this point the steering committee has reconvened um we have asked to have a member of the mtea on that steering committee so we could get input and and support from the teachers um we will not have a plan by June there's a lot of things that we have asked for we've asked for an updated demog a demog demographic report we are looking at to projected costs because the costs have risen since the last um um referendum so we need projected costs for a middle school School an additional um Elementary School and a um addition to the high school we're not going to have these things before the summer it's the probability of getting a referendum
086on the ballot before December is not good because of time constraints if we needed a if we wanted to get a referendum in in on the ballot in October we needed to have it all ready by April so there if we change the reference in any in any way we have to go back to the state and that takes six months it takes six months so this year we are not going to have anything then I could tell you that we're not having anything in October I don't know if we'll be able to get anything on the ballot before next um 2019 thank you president but we are I'm I'm going to say only one statement I'm sorry Mr perab your your time is not expired what you have done with Dr kak thank you
087[Applause] good evening uh Christy scurby 21 pness Drive I just had a question I know it was it has been brought up at several meetings about the public forum um and I did go online and pull up the bylaws of the board and number 0164 conduct of board meetings it lists the entire order of business it has public forum number one public forum number two public forum number three does have a note next to it that it's for close session items only but public forum number one does not say agenda items only where is that policy written I I believe it it's in the policy I would have to look it up it's not I have it right here off the off the website this is the policy it's number 0164 conduct of board meetings
088it's not on excuse me it's it's not conduct of board meetings I believe it's it has the entire the order of business shall be as follows call to order moment of silence roll call New Jersey open public meeting statement it goes on public form number one superintendent report business administrators report board president's report Other Board of Education business public form two close session public form three comma close session items only it's not on there it's District policy 0164 it's from the bylaws yes conduct different policy no there's actually a policy that does we we have it we have it because I I that's what we use where would that be located cuz it it's in the bylaws that is the bylaw it's in the bylaws I do not the bylaw is the bylaw that is
089on the district website a different bylaw how could it be a different bylaw it this is the cont is how an agenda it's in a it's in how the agenda is written up and that's what we and that's what this says it's a different I'm telling you it's a different bylaw can somebody please send that to to C can that be posted somewhere or you're the H head of policy Miss normania like it's I have the same one you have I pulled that out 0164 today we we'll look it up and we will send it to you I I made a a comment about it too okay um and I just again going with the superintendent's contract we sat here and talked for I don't know what almost an hour about suing the state what
090I don't understand is if we don't have cause to sue the state does that mean that we we're saying that we don't we're not owed any more money so if we're not owed any more money what are we what are we continuing to fight for if we're not ready to sue the state that's kind of saying then we're not owed money if we don't have cause to have more money then what are we fighting for and if we're worried about spending money on a lawsuit to fight with what we really think we we believe in our hearts that Monroe deserves more funding I believe that I believe we are not getting our fair share we're afraid to spend money on a lawsuit yet we are going to be facing a large lawsuit by what we
091did to Dr kosak why isn't anybody care about that that I would rather spend the money fighting for funding than paying taxpayer money to be sued for what this board is doing to Dr kak that is a waste of our taxpayer money our money should be going toward fighting for funding fighting to get money not not paying for a lawsuit for what this board is doing [Applause] wrong Krishna deal La Jake pleas I have a question about Dr goak right while you say it's a personal contract it affects the the entire School restrict why is it prohibited from saying why he was let go or who voted on it we this should be transparency on who actually voted to let go of the superintendent this affects the entire School District you cannot hide behind the
092fact that it's a personal matter or it's a contract it is a personal matter or personal to who you or is it personal to you not person not personal personel yeah is it personal to you or is it him it's Personnel I know that I know the difference Madam so Personnel matters are confidential we cannot discuss personal matter so now now let's assume that even if you voted if you did it in the best of legal interest and everything else and you're covered legally I have a question for you where is your search with the next superintendent how much are you going to spend on the next superintendent is that in the is that in the um uh budget you have what are you looking for in the next superintendent what are you looking for
093when you go out and interview candidates what is that you expect the next Super to bring to the table that will make the next super successful who is spear uh spearheading the referendum in his absence you would have do you have the answers to that we have not even discussed a superintendent search so you don't know what you're going to do but you let go of the man you have in place and at this time on the agenda we will be looking for an acting or an interim superintendent so you don't have an answer you just are looking for one and you're hoping to get one before the other man goes that is a discussion for closed session which is a personnel matter which is confidential I know what a difference between personal and Personnel
094is I have uh degrees I multiple degrees okay don't tell me that thank [Applause] you hello uh um my name is Iva Nelson I live at 87 Crescent way I'd like to thank Mr Chella for could you please raise your microphone so that we can hear you bringing some sanity to these proceedings it's kind of frustrating to sit back here and listen to uh what's going on for a for quite a long time and and and perhaps RI vanwinkle is waking up here um a a lawsuit um seemed for a long time to be the only solution that we really had other than funing games and wasting everybody's time and going through motions and listening to politicians and I think finally um thanks to you uh perhaps something might be done there really is only
095one solution and that is to Sue and that's been evident for more than a year why you folks have not taken that approach I really don't understand but let me move on to something else the bond issue was voted down uh and I'm assuming it's going to be coming up sometime in the future has anybody done an analysis as to why it was voted down yes we have done that and what what what reasons did you come up with as to why it was voted down there was a a survey that was sent out to um the parents um I I think and and other people in the community had access to that too uh I think the the two major points was the the growth of the township and stopping the um development and
096the second one was taxes those were the two biggest issues and then there was a lot of other things um people didn't want to support a referendum before the teacher contract was done um there were people who were not happy that there was not um the high school added to that to the referendum so there was a um a few different issues as to why but the major ones was the development of the township and the taxes the tax impact and it's your opinion that something will change the next time it goes go comes up for vote I think it'll probably be voted down by even a greater majority than it was the first time it depends on what will change what is going to change we don't know what we're going to be putting
097on the ballot at this point and it would be the consensus of the Board of Education there'll be a recommendation by the administration and a vote by the Board of Education as to what the referendum will be what happens to that property that golf course that uh we took over by I I believe we took over by eminent domain the golf course is owned by the township the Board of Education can have that Township can have that piece of property anytime we wish to have it the only thing that is um subject to um um discussion is the cost of that property which is between the former owner and the township that has not been decided yet it still has not been decided the cost of that piece of property I remember being here in
098December and we were told it was a slam dunk that it was it was it was a done deal that is not the Board of Education that is between the township and the former owner lot of problems a lot of issues just on this bonding okay thank you where where you public forum we already have somebody at the microphone that's okay come back we're only allowed to come up to the public forum once per public forum sorry it's not the first time it's not the first time up here twice I Mr proso Mr proso we've had we're only having one public forum in in the in the bylaws it states that you can only come up once four minute time limit you allow everybody that's play you but when Mr prosa we've had two or
099three public forums usually we have three public forums today we're only having one good evening my time starts now right it does okay Ram ragat 6en mandro um question one uh right so what is the general procedure in terms of reappointment or no reappointment of any superintendent of Monro Township School District well there's it's contractual and it's by Statute so what's ever in a contract or what's ever in the law and that's how you would go about following um the procedure to rehire reappoint whatever right so in that what is the role of the Board of Ed members what is the role we evaluate the superintendent every year right I'm talking about the the end of the contract the reappointment or not how is I will not talk about the contract I'm not talking about
100Dr kak's contract I'm talking about General I can't express General because everybody's contract for superintendence is different based on the requirements of a community and what's what your needs are and the person in charge your superintendent okay just last point on that I know the township spend a year and a half or whatever it is to find Dr kak and I cannot believe that we are again on that same track and this board of education the poe members and the president is not taking the Public's plea of reinstating or reappointing Dr kak that is very very very disappointing for all of us second second point on the referendum and I'm again disappointed that we are not even trying hard to have something by October on the ballot I I thought we had done 80% of
101the work so if we had just to add the high school even that was projected in one of the first referendums or the thoughts about it so I don't understand why we cannot work towards an October time frame and make it happen we are desperate we spending money our kids are suffering why doesn't the Board of Ed members and the president see that anguish and that frustration and try to make this happen for October because we have already passed the October deadline line which would have been April to get this on the ballot by October yeah but from what I heard it looks like nothing has been done you're asking for all these studies to be redone again what a waste of time and money I thought you just did all that well if we
102if we decided to go out with the exact same resol referendum it could have been done we decided we wanted to hear from the public we did a survey um we're looking at the cost to add at the High school if we do that and we decide to go out for that it will take 6 months at least for the state to approve that so six months from now would be November right right okay uh I I just conclude with that I just feel if there's a will there is a way i' would like to really see the board of fed members and the president figure out a way in 2018 to make this happen uh if not I just feel that you guys are not listening to the public thank [Applause] you anyone else
103from the public wishing to speak seeing no one we will close the public portion and uh close session resolution be it resolved that the Board of Education of the township of Monroe hereby moves to go into closed session in accordance to Sunshine Law chapter 231 of the public laws of 1975 njsa 10 col 4-6 through 10 col 4-21 to discuss the following subject School ethics issues personel and matters falling within the attorney client privilege with respect to these subjects following Clos session action may be taken the discussion conducted in closed session can be discussed to the public at such time as the need for confidentiality no longer exists moved by Mr Chella is there a second second second by Mrs Lang all in favor opposed okay at this time the board will move into Clos
104session how long I'm going to guess an hour there could be more could be less is there action after can there could be action it's not on the agenda that says it does not say on the agenda that the action be the discussion conducted in closed session can be disclosed following following close section action may be taken where is that on here it's it's on every close session okay at this time the board will move back into public session and I have a a um resolution to read I move that the Monroe Township Board of Education Direct the business administrator board secretary through the human resources department to initiate the posting for five school days of the position of Acting Superintendent of Schools the position start date of July 1st 2018 I further remove that
105in the event that there are no qualified internal applicants meeting board approval the board directs the business administrator board secretary through the human resources department to advertise for five school days the position of interim superintendent of the schools with the position start date of July 1st 2018 so move second Mr Chella Mrs Lang any comments or questions that's a slow board secretary you know what I think I'm going to make a comment all right oh miss armeno based on um the the public uh concerns about us not uh renewing Dr kac's um uh contract um I would like to say that I think this is this is unfortunate it shouldn't be happening and um I think we should have reconsidered that's it okay Mr Mr Rybeck can we have a roll call no we have
106to a paper just get that okay um M alino no Mr bravman abent Mr cha yes M the mail yes Miss Lang yes M Coro is outo is out I vote Yes um Mr rutsky yes Mrs K yes motion passes thank you um a I I guess it's a motion to adjourn so move so moved Mrs Lang Mr Mayo all in favor I uh posed then the meeting is adjourned 10 o00