001good evening the meeting of the Monroe Township Board of Education will come to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God visible with liberty and justice for all may we have a roll call Mr Gorski Mrs kapano here Mr Chella here Mr Braverman here Mr calman present Mr Klein here Mr Larry's absent Mrs uh Mr Masters here Mr tesler here and I think you forgot M anelis here Mrs Fon here Madam board president you have a forum thank you and accordance with the provisions of the New Jersey public open meetings law the Monro Township Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the date time
002and place thereof posted June 15 2011 one at all schools two home News Tribune three cranberry press and four filed with the clerk of the municipality we we have a very big agenda today so we are going to start with the presentation of the mono Education Foundation grants I will turn this over to Mr Ira tesler who is the president of the Monroe Education Foundation thank you Kathy in addition to serving on the board of ed I'm also president of the Monroe Ed foundation and for those who uh you may not know the Monroy Foundation is a non-for-profit organization in town and our mission is very simple we Inspire lifelong learning we do that by raising money uh and once a year we get to give out uh teacher grants that's the ma majority of
003the way we uh give out our money among some other things so tonight um we are going to present our teachers grants and um I guess I would also like to thank the members of the Monro Education Foundation who are here tonight if you're here just raise your hand anybody there okay we got Kristen Miller back there we also have Amy anelis who serves and Kathy Kay as well so actually Amy since you're closer if you want to kind of hold these for me give me a hand no all right our first grant recipient goes to Woodland School uh it's weather in action Nicholas Reinhold and this is actually going to provide additional updated equipment for the weather bug over at Woodland School uh couple new displays and some new hardware so look for that
004coming soon when you visit you yeah these are all sorry one gra some are from multiple teachers next uh Grant is for Barkley Brook uh school it's for uncovering the mysteries of the Galaxy second grade studing shooting for the Stars uh we've been doing this for quite a few years and basically part of the second grade curriculum uh is a um is a learning about the solar system so uh what we've been doing is we funded this grant which a gentleman comes in and provides a portable planetarium which the kids get to go in and uh have a presentation and it's just like going to the Hayden planetarium or whatever it's called now in New York but lot smaller it's portable they get to go in the gym they get to learn all about the
005stars and it's a great time for them and the two teachers are Kristen Miller and Patty dbor and this is actually for uh the entire second grade over at bark Li so congratulations next also at bark Li school um strong readers make confident students uh Pam toriello and I'm not going to even B's name can you read that kab kav tanha I apologize cuz I am the worst at pry name so congratulations congratulations thank you all right another one for Barkley Brook this represents uh the entire Kindergarten over at Barkley Brook it's called Penguins on Parade uh part of their curriculum is also uh learning about penguins over at uh bark of the brook in kindergarten and this is a grant where Jenkinson's Aquarium um actually comes in and brings penguins in and the winners
006well winners the recipients are Sarah rich Milla Melissa Cortina Lisa McHugh Ashley Pepe Katherine hfot Sarah Richards and that's it those the entire Kindergarten over at Park with [Applause] school accepting is Lisa mugh thank you congratulations in addition to uh Barkley Brook uh studying the solar system we have another Grant uh for mil Lake and uh it's similar they uh bring in a planetarium and also mil Lake this year is bringing in an astronomer that can uh teach them lessons about the solar system to the children and the award goes to Denise Quinn Cynthia cook Christina melhorn Tamara Lopez and that's it now accepting accepting on the behalf of the second grade on behalf of the teachers is Dr barbaria I to get used to saying that thank you thank you very much a program
007we've co-funded for many many years it's uh become a staple over at Barkley Brook and the second graders uh look forward to it I know uh two of my three CH children get got to participate into it is uh circus around the world and uh we co-fund that with uh some other grants that we receive so Dana [Applause] Walker congratulations and last but not least over at Apple Applegarth School uh authentic assessment using portfolios Bonnie Chrisco and sbel [Applause] Posner and a couple Shameless plugs um the in order to give all these grants we have to raise money somehow we are having our annual golf outing on July 12th over at the forgate for forsgate Country Club can't speak tonight um if you would like to find out more information to participate or to buy
008a t- sign uh just go to our website Monro EDF foundation.org all the information is there we would love for you to come and join us it's a wonderful day uh also uh each school has a Giving Tree we sell um at the one is right out here if you want to take a look at your way out but we sell leaf on that giving tree for $100 and you can inscribe your child's name your business's name whatever you want as long as it's decent on it and uh we also have a special gun you can buy all the schools for $500 so you can leave a legacy to the school so that's an ongoing fundraiser um we've uh been doing for several years now and we look forward to putting a brand new tree
009up on the brand new high school when it opens uh this past um spring winter we had a basketball game uh the teachers versus the police teachers won yay no sh um the teachers uh and the teachers and actually the police department would like a a Revenge Grudge Match and uh we look forward to having a softball game um I believe the first weekend in September uh again the teachers versus the police uh to raise money for the foundation so again if you would like to also help us we could use some help it's very very tough to join a foundation you just have to show up to a meeting uh we meet at Brookside School in the library or our next meeting is Monday and again check the website um for any information thank
010you and have a good night thank you Mr Tesla and I also would like to extend my um thanks to the monreal Education Foundation for all you do to support our education um you enhance our programs and you work with us and we thank you for your support thank you very much and I'd just like to uh hand over the check for $10,500 to Mr Gorski oh that's always helpful thank you at this time I'd like to ask Dr Hamilton to um assist me in recognizing our support staff who we're going to honor this evening um this is a group of people who work in our district and whom we could not survive without them so we will go there correct this time I'm going to read the resolution and I'm going to read the
011first one and then just give you the names of the other schools um uh recognizers whereas the Board of Education of the township of Monroe County of middlex state of New Jersey has been apprised of the following Kevin McDermot from Woodland School be it resolved by the Board of Education Township of Monroe County of middlex in the state of New Jersey that the said Board of Education hereby wishes to acknowledge Kevin McDermot as the support staff of the year and the board's appreciation for his services and whereas it is desired to express res recognition for his years of faithful service now therefore be it resolved by the Board of Education of the township of Monroe that it does hereby express its warm appreciation and heartfelt thanks for the dedicated and faithful service in the performance
012of his duties as head custodian and of the Integrity with which he continues to carry out his responsibilities be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of this board of education and that a copy of it be given to Kevin McDermot passed unan unanimously by the township Monroe Board of Education at its regular meeting of June 15 2011 Mr mcdermit [Applause] Dr Hamilton yes just let you know is that mentioned Woodland School but Kevin's been working with me diligently for three years at Oak just let you know that makes him really good we will make sure that we change the resolution and that you get a new one so instead of reading these all seven times I'm just going to read uh the name of the person John
013Emerson Woodland School for his years of service as head [Applause] custodian and I apologize if I mispronounced the name um Donna riff goal from Barkley Brooks school for her for her years for her her support as and her Duty as a power [Applause] professional our next one is Denise jimnez from Mil Lake School as her years of service as a secretary at mil Lake School [Music] [Applause] thank you our next one for her years of service as a Prof par professional at Apple gorth schools Rosa pon [Applause] thank you thank you our next recipient and for his years of service as his duties as a network operations manager for Brookside School Elliot Feldman congratulations our next one is secretary at monre Township High School we'd like to congratulate Andrea [Applause] benavento accepting is Miss Karen
014castaldo thank you very much very welcome thank you thank you everybody y okay now we're going to switch and we're going to honor our retirees people that some of these people I know that I have worked in the district with probably going back to 1987 many of our board members have had the opportunity to work with these people we'd like to congratulate you and wish you success on your future and we will definitely miss all of you here in Monroe I'm going to read the resolution for the first one and then we'll let you know the rest whereas the board of educ a of the township of Monro County of middlex state of New Jersey has been apprised of the retirement of Karen Carol blat par professional Woodland School be it resolved by the Board
015of Education Township of monre County of middlex in the state of New Jersey that the said Board of Education wishes to acknowledge its appreciation for the service rendered to the students and citizens of Monroe Township by Carol BL who is retiring as of July 1st 2011 whereas it is desired to express recognition for the many years of faithful service now therefore be it resolved by the Board of Education of the township of Monroe that it does hereby express its warm appreciation and heartfelt thanks for the dedicated and faithful service in the performance of her duties excuse me as a power professional and of the Integrity with which she carried out her responsibilities and the regrets the loss of such a respected employee be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be spread upon
016the minutes of this board of education and that a copy of it be given to Carol blot passed unanimously by the township of Monroe Board of Education at its regular meeting June 15 [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Carol our next teacher of Spanish at the Monro TP High School Gertrude [Applause] Campo thank [Music] you Monroe Township High School school secretary Dolores mlan [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you thank you congratulations teacher of grade school grade two at Barkley Brook School and a teacher of one of my children many many years ago well not that many Barbara colandro [Applause] teacher of special education for Berkley Brook School Amy [Applause] Chate congratulations thank you so much school nurse for barklay Brook School and one who's put many Band-Aids on my three children Maryanne [Applause] [Music] manona Mar you will
017be missed is this mine yes the head custodian at Woodland School John Emerson [Applause] teacher of industrial Arts at the Monro Township High School Robert Carlson you congratulations assistant principal Monro Township High School Anthony josefowitz [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] congratulations good luck good luck I thought my they have it that's it that's it we have one more this time I'd like to ask Miss Rea dakia to please come here come up Reena has been our student board member for the last two years someone who has been involved with us and we appreciate all that you have done to be a part of our Board of Education um I believe Reena will be attending Nova Southeastern Florida University you will be majoring in Psychology and some of the things that she's been involved in as a
018member of the high school the National Honor Society the French Honor Society student council peer leadership sbaa Deca the Multicultural Club so we'd like to honor you with the plaque presented to miss Mina dakia in sincere appreciation for dedicated service to to the students and schools of Monroe Township while serving as a student board member of the township of Monroe Board of Education from 2019 to 2011 and we' like to wish you continued success [Applause] done my computer is off okay as soon as my computer Bo boots up we'll be able to do this [Music] again number n i I have to this okay at this time we will go to our public forum Forum anyone from the public wishing to speak please come to the microphone and state your name and address for the
019record since we have such a big oh I'm sorry after we recognized Reena I forgot to let her speak so we will go to our student board members reports okay good evening um to start this Friday June 17th Applegarth is holding its 8th grade um Awards in the Applegarth gymnasium at 9:30 a.m. also on Friday the 8th grade formal dance will be held at Oak Tree school at 700 p.m. the e8th grade moving up ceremony will be held June 22nd at 6:30 p.m. in the MTH gym mths gym excuse me as for Brookside uh the sixth grade moving up ceremony will be held in the Barkley Brook gymnasium at 9:45 a.m. mil lak's third grade spring concert will be tomorrow Woodland's sixth grade moving up ceremony will be held on June 22nd at 9:30 a.m.
020in the Woodland Woodland gymnasium lastly all schools have half days next week and Thursday June 23rd is the last day of school along with the mths graduation also I wanted want to just say a thanks to the board of ed um I really valued this experience even though I must have um I missed a couple of meetings and I felt really badly about it um this was really a valuable experience for me and um I can take this on with me in my future and learn from it a lot and I this was the only way I really directly was involved with the commun community so I just wanted to thank the board of ed for this opportunity thank you Reena and again we wish you continued success in college and come back and visit
021us all the time so now at this time we'll go to number nine public forum anyone from the public wishing to speak please come to the microphone state your name and address for the record and since we looks like a big crowd we will adhere to our three minute um speaking good evening Bara colandro 61 Valley Forge Drive East Brunswick New Jersey I am speaking tonight as the voice of the people standing behind me they are the staff from Barkley Brook School last Friday a district supervisor and a principal met with a Barkley Brook teacher where the supervisor informed her that she would not be rehired we are all here tonight to express a strong vote of no confidence in that decision this hardworking dedicated and Effective Teacher is an example of excellence and stands
022up for the needs of every child speaking up is what is right for students should be rewarded not punished Barkley Brook has always been a special learning community and this teacher is an important part of our community we ask that you carefully review and deny this recommendation of non-renewal her dismissal will have a negative effect on the moral of Barkley Brook staff thank [Applause] you is there anyone else from the public wishing to speak hello my name is jacn Burbank I live at 11 Carlton Avenue in Monroe Township I'm just calling because I'm me standing here because of a recent article I read in the Sentinel about zero period busing I don't know if that's that's already been discussed previously um zero period busing for the music um elementary schools is being um not it's
023not going to happen so I was just wondering if there's a plan in effect for maintaining the number of um band and coral students in the elementary levels it really doesn't make a difference to me my son my last son is in high school but I'm really concerned about um I know that the Board of Education and uh the teachers in the Monroe School System have really supported the music department and it's really come a long way they've uh done a lot of work in recruiting really excellent teachers and I would don't want to see the music department in any way shape or form um lose students through attrition and through the fact that there's no busing Mr Gorski would you like to respond um with the cumulative loss and uh state aid awards that
024the district has had and the uh four consecutive budget defeats we had to U make some cuts from the budget and a matter of the area which was chosen to be cut unfortunately um some or all of us would be affected um cutting zero period Transportation was one of the last transportation services provided previously and and it was only several years ago that we added it parents drove their students uh to those programs um and unfortunately we can no longer continue with that cost so it was a fair methodology to cut that one and uh fortunately we're still able to maintain those wonderful programs thank you Mr Mr Coffman wow two mics um as a big supporter of the uh the music program it it really wasn't an easy decision to eliminate zero period busing
025but I'd like to take this opportunity because we have a lot of residents in the room tonight to make you understand that having multiple years of consecutive losses of budgets uh we can only do so much with making things not affect students before some point in time uh students and programs will be affected um I I hate to use this word but be advised that you know if we continue not being able to pass budgets um this is you won't even remember this because there will be so many programs and courses and you know many many other things cut from our very rich curriculum that we've worked many many years to build they'll be gone year after year after year year and will be cut more and more and more so I would very much
026urge everybody who's a resident in Monroe Township to become a champion of our school budget um it it we don't like to do these things but we are accountable to make sure that these budgets pass and that every dime is spent we we can't pay it forward we can't ask for more money outside the realm of of referendums and those things so um we hate doing it but uh unfortunately it has to be done thank you Mr Kaufman Mr Klein it's only a certain amount of money we're able to spend there's only a certain amount of taxes we can collect and there's only a certain amount of weight we can put on our residents in property tax increases every year if you're reading the newspapers be it the home news mostly the home news because
027it's middle sex County and just take a look at what's been going on and these other school districts we're talking Edison Woodbridge Oldbridge the cuts that they've made and they get a heck of a lot more money than we do but with the cuts that they made there was help given by other people involved to be able to save jobs and save programs there's a limit to what we can charge our residents this past year the increase will be 20 cents 100 on your assess valuation and for the people who run fixed incomes they no longer can afford it and when you read in the paper after the vote most of middle sex County school districts passed the budget but their increases were 4 cents 5 cents 8 cents 100 not 20 or 21 cents
028100 we're fortunate so far that our cuts are very limited but as Mr cofman had mentioned another year of a turn down budget there's going to be a lot of big changes and we don't want to do anything to hurt the kids thank you is there anyone else from the public wishing to speak um my name is James suy from 600 West End Avenue New York um I can't afford to live in New Jersey neither can we the uh the uh car insurance is a lot cheaper in New York and I can assure you um I'd like to make a couple of comments regarding the recommendation for the um Award of the contract for the new TV studio um I speak with a fair amount of uh experience because uh We've supplied TV studios in
029uh in East Orange Haslett Kingsboro Long Branch Livingston Piscataway Trenton to name but many um so the two main comments I'd like to uh to make is um is regarding the lighting that was specified um I made at least three um suggestions that the the recommendation to use tungsten lighting um should be changed to fluorescent um we read every day that the world is going to fluorescent an LED for um efficiency eco-friendly reduced um energy usage Etc um so I think the idea of using a Tungsten uh lamp in the in the studio is is completely wrong um and what's more the cost of um of using that of using fluorescent fixtures instead of the uh the tungsten on specified would reduce the cost of the studio by about $25,000 which is kind of interesting
030considering some of the comments that preceded me that uh um you know there's a proposal here to spend 24 $25,000 more than I believe is necessary for this uh the other comment I'd like to make is as I said we've installed a lot of Studio um around the area um many of these people you you may know the the principles or the uh the IT people in these and the the company that's been recommended here hasn't installed any uh I'll be free um you welcome any questions or supporting documentation but it's the uh the gist of my comments thank you for your time okay thank you so anyone else from the public okay seeing no one we will go to the approval of minut for the public Board of Education meeting of April 13 2011
031Motion in a second Mr cherella Mr Masters comments or questions all in favor opposed abstentions abstain miss anelis abstains the approval of the minutes for the closed session board meeting of April 13 2011 second Mr cherella Mr Klein uh comments or questions all in favor I opposed abstentions obain miss analis the public Board of Education organization meeting of May 11 2011 so moved second Mr tesler and Mr cherella comments questions all in favor I opposed extensions then we will go to the approval of minutes for the Clos session board meeting of May 11 2011 moved Mr Kaufman Mr tesler questions all in favor I I opposed extensions then the minutes have passed we will go to the superintendent Report with Dr Hamilton thank you before I start my report I'd just like to take this
032opportunity as this is the final meeting for the school year for our staff to thank our staff and our district administrators for another very successful school year our accomplishments this year have been plentiful and we are one one step closer to making the top 100 in the state so I I want to applaud the staff and the administration for for that uh achievement I also want to congratulate our support staff and our retirees for their contribution to the district and to all of our students particularly those who served on the superintendent focus group this year your ideas and and your contributions are appreciate it much more than you will ever know and for the energy that you provided to me just to keep a pulse on things in our district from a student perspective uh
033moving on to uh the superintendent report as you can see we are finishing up this school year with 163 additional students um Mr Gorski and I had the honor and privilege of meeting with uh Township business administrator and shared the they shared the result of the consense the census that was taken here in Monroe and we if the census is correct correct we will see these numbers double in the next few years um that's something we should certainly keep into consideration but that report is there for your your review and consideration our enrollment report for our out of District placement remains pretty consistent over the course of the year and our home instruction list is also there for your review and that list is also um available um with student ID student ID numbers um
034and if you need more information we can certainly provide that item number three list of fire drills and the lockdown you will also see bus drill or bus evacuation drills that are listed and also required by code that are on your agenda and moving on to Personnel items Madame board president members of the Board of Education it is recommended by the superintendent that Personnel items a through HH be approved by roll call vote this agenda as you know is a long agenda these are um procedur most of these are procedural items consistent with this time of year and reappointments for next year okay is there a motion in a second so moved Miss antelis second Mr Kaufman are there any questions for Dr Hamilton it's not a question statement Mr Klein um on Personnel C
035there I was laying in bed with two intervenes oxygen and I read that ing's leaving and after the cardiac arrest they revived me it's shocking and the resignation of ingred director of Transportation will be a tremendous loss to our district she was an asset to us and will not easily be replaced she knew her responsibilities and deeply cared about our children and our employees running this difficult Department like a fine watch there was no problem she could not solve quickly to everyone's satisfaction she will be greatly greatly missed and I tried everything in my power today to try to get her to stay threats handcuffs tried to steal a car and unfortunately we're losing a fantastic fantastic leader and we'll miss her thank you thank you Mr Clint and I just want to the records
036say that Mr Klein is not kidding about the hospital as he has recently been admitted and has had a problem and he's now back on the board happy and healthy Mr Braverman just want to clarify something you went to ingred and discussed you went to ingred and discussed her stay I asked I asked if there was any possibility she would reach considerer yes I did that's not a board member's I did it as a personal I did it as personal you can't keep saying that Mark well this was personal this was personal there any rather take every chance to try to keep somebody that's a valued employee than to let them walk and if it's against the rules then I broke the rules but at least I gave it my best shot to try to
037keep a valued employee can't keep breaking them and keep saying it's personal and what they can do is they can vote me off the board the next time I run I will not I will not sit here and keep my mouth shut if you keep doing and I will the board might have to sanction you then they can sanction me I will do everything I can within the limits but if something has to be said it will be said and I assure you that Mr Klein and I have had a conversation and we had a conversation um any more any other questions for Dr Hamilton nasty nasty nasty at this time Mr Gorski may we have a roll call on the Personnel items yes Mr Larry is absent Mr tesler yes Mrs Ferron yes Mrs
038antelis yes but I'd like to recuse myself I on item uu and item Triple A uu and Triple A so noted you only went to HH Triple H Triple H Triple H paying attention Okay thank you Mark my pleasure Mr Braverman um I have a comment is um is this Mr and Mr uh Dr Gorman's second year have they completed their second year or is this this their second contract or Beyond this will be their second contract year they're being reappointed their contracts are at the County office they have not been approved yet so then this these are 10-year contracts no this after tenure for um an administrator in a certificated position who's already had an established position of certification in the district is two years and a day so even fulfillment of the 111
03912 year for me would require another day and another appointment but this is that contract no this is only the second year and one day we no well congratulations thank you yes Mr Chella yes Mr Klein yes Mr Masters yes Mr calman reclu on dou n w yes on all others that was NN and W yep so noted Mrs kapano yes Personnel items a through Triple H passes moving on Madam board president to board action items and members of the board of education is recommended by the superintendent the board action items a through X be approved by roll call vote Motion in a second please moved miss antelis Mr Chella are there any questions for Dr Hamilton Mr Braverman on K the elimination of the 12 month position and on L were creating a 10
040month position and your comment in K is it's for reasons of economy I'd like to say that it's very disheartening and I think dis uh well I think it's very disheartening for us to attempt economical moves on the backs of the lowest people in the district I think frankly there would be a larger saving if prior to negotiations with the administrators I was able to say something about having all all Elementary School principles and vice principles be on 10 month contracts that would have been a enormous savings and frankly I don't know that they'd be missed during the summer but but that's me and I understand that uh but I I personally and I also think that you need her 12 months a year we have an opportunity through some restructuring to reassign some of
041those duties uh to central office Personnel um so that's that's the Catalyst for for this recommendation that work will not disappear and that's true the summer months are very busy in transportation um but we have an opportunity just just based on some reassignments in central office to add those duties to another desk any other questions question Mr Kaufman right we're we're changing the job description of the supervisor of language arts literacy um I'm not part of personnel so I don't know um I think last year we did away with one of the supervisor's positions is this still going to be a supervisory level position or is this like a Lead Teacher thing or no this is still supervisory yes um we have not I asked Mr Gorman to do an assessment on how the lead
042teacher position is working out with math and give us some data on that got some preliminary data but it's not complete yet but this recommendation for language arts continues in its current function anyone else at this time we have a motion right we we will do a roll call Mr tesler yes Mrs fony yes Mrs anelis yes Mr Braverman no on the K and L yes on the rest do so noted Mr cherella yes Mr Klein yes Mr Masters yes Mr calman yes M kapano yes madame board president board action items a through X passes thank you that concludes the superintendent's report thank you Dr Hamilton at this time we will go to the business administrator report Mr Gorski thank you Madame board president and members of the Monro Township Board of Education it is
043recommended that board action items a through double w be approved by consent roll call some mooved Mr Kaufman second Miss anelis are there any questions for Mr Gorski in regard to the business administrator's report seeing none we will have a roll call Mr tesler yes Mrs Fon yes Mr antelis yes Mr Braverman yes Mr Chella yes Mr kleene yes Mr Masters yes Mr calman yes Mrs kapano yes board action items a through double w passes thank you very much and at this time we will go to keep going through the agenda okay the I believe it's the board president's report just have a couple things um number one uh the Committees have been restructured and assigned and the only real change from last year is um piggybacking on Mr Kaufman's government committee is now a
044governance legislative committee the idea of that committee or My Hope for that committee is to make it to use that as on a rotating basis with all the board members as we did last year but to continue the fight for a fair and Equitable funding formula and to make sure that our budgets get passed so I think that it is something important enough for all our all our board members to be involved in that conversation um the second thing is that recently there was a town hall meeting held in Monroe by Governor Christie I know there were members of the administration and other board members who attended that um there were a lot of questions asked I think our my concerns were in regard to the funding he answered a lot of questions I followed
045up uh with that meeting with a letter to the governor with a copy to all our a um state representatives and at this time I have not heard any answers or replies so we will continue the fight to make sure that our voices are heard and that a funding formula or hopefully will there'll be a new one for next year and my my last thing is that I would like to congratulate Mr Lou Masters on the birth of his fourth son I I I don't ever remember a a u baby being born to the board except Mr cherel Has Come Close um but I I think it's very exciting and um a welcome addition to our school system so at this time we will go to committee reports is there any board member that has
046a report that needs to be talked Mr Clin where do we start I'm not quite sure um just one thing on the policy and I was going to say something earlier but I just let it go uh the policy committee will make a subcommittee will form a subcommittee to uh rewrite our discipline rules and regulations and penalties in order to uh make the students more accountable for their actions and to get the parents directly involved when it gets to a point that uh whatever we've done in the school is not sufficient so you will get reports on that as we progress as far as building and grounds today um the r clean rest home there was an offer there for $100,000 to allow them uh sewer easement and they never responded so it's been tabled
047for now until they decide what whether they want it or they don't want it uh the uh High School construction update there's some electrical changes that are necessary uh there was some classrooms that going to have to be used for like special um uh programs like Avid so there were going to be some rooms converted over for that and there's electrical work that has to be done uh the biggest expense off for the friers that are in the uh uh in the lunch room and in the uh cooking facility for lack of a better name um that's the most expensive because they have to put uh higher amped wiring in and so and then some extra outlets for um for computers in some not computers but uh copy machines in some of the rooms uh
048renovation update try to read my writing the most important thing on this is looking into solar electric on all our buildings and uh uh Michael was approached by the county that there's a co-op program being set up by a developer and in essence they would put all the equipment in they would receive the tax rebates and we would purchase the electricity from them at a very very deep discount as compared to what we're paying presently through the Consortium that would be a great savings for us they offered to do a survey of all our schools and let us know whether it can be done and uh if not what are the other available options and we're looking into it the best part of it is there's no investment for us we're vir we're virtually going
049to purchase the electric through this developer but only the electric that is uh is um made by the solar systems so let's say we use 100 kwatt hours and a producer is 30 then we purchase 70 on the market so that could be a great savings I did find out being a fairly new on the board that oak tree does have a solar system that we own and uh they are going to look at putting a solar system in a new high school that we would own so this is all in the talking stages now the uh the survey that's being made uh that the the county asked us to participate in is at a cost of $1,000 a school but the state will pick up half or the county will pick up half so
050it cost us $500 a school to receive a survey on whether the solar system will work or what's needed so I thought that was great uh TCU lease that's the trailers um we ran the the lease ran out in Barkley Brook I believe we have two trailers there and we have an option now of either returning them paying to have them torn down purchasing them or leasing them and it's a tough decision because with everything that's going on and as I've spoken in many other meetings about the so Law act of converting uh PNC's which are your uh age restricted developments into family developments somewhere in the future if the biggest one hannanian uh does win on appeal that could mean within a matter of 5 six years another 700 kids to our school system
051so the question is if we tear them down or we return them we may need them so I think what we've decided to do and if I'm speaking at a turn correct me is possibly lease them year toe and make the decision whether we should keep them or or return them um detail plans the boosters Monroe Township boosters baseball scoreboard uh there's a donation for a new scoreboard scoreboard made by the boosters and we've accepted of course and there's also um the touchdown Club um wants to donate a football shed for them to store equipment on the practice field that we have to look into further to see whether uh the size of the shed if it gets too large it counts as a building and then there's a variance involved and so on but
052basically the scoreboard I believe we' decided to accept and we're going to speak about the shed um last but not least the central office repairs um they were forced to redo the kitchen because there was a very bad water leak that did damage to the floor the wood floor so the wood floor had to be replaced and they had to add cabinets cuz the cabinets were in bad shape in countertops uh the cost on that is basically $3,500 plus some limited labor which I believe we're doing inous so it's something that had to be done and that's why it was done um the other thing that we discussed is painting the outside of the administrative building and also replacing some of the gutters uh the painting will be done inhouse the gut is we have
053a choice of doing it in-house or bring a company in that does it um seamless where they they build it right at the site and it's a matter of getting prices and see which way we're better off and that's basically buildings and grounds next is finance uh the only thing here that really I'm not going to go over everything but um Michael I heard that uh Michael was able to well here you want to handle it you missed the meeting Mr Klein Mr Klein let's um Michael was a was able to refinance our 2002 bond series and um we'll realize uh our savings of 1, 371,000 $735 over 10 years um least purchase financing of our computer equipment except for the new high school he was able to get us the lowest rates we've ever
054gotten and that is $ 47,51 a year for the equipment um as far as purchasing there's a purchasing Consortium that uh uh he requests us to join uh it will cost us $8,000 to join but we could realize savings based on previous purchases these are all different types supplies whether it's janitorial uh toilet tissue any of these other supplies we can realize a savings of about $100,000 a year based on last year um and the only part that hurt was uh Arbitrage payment that we have to pay the IRS and this hurts 158,159 5year anniversary is this a one-time payment yes and this is because uh Wayne holiday and Michael uh was able to uh get us excellent Returns on bond money and some other monies that we had and you're only allowed to keep
055a certain amount of it so therefore the rest is going to the state and that's basically the finance committee thank you are there any questions for Mr Klein on his reports on finance or buildings and grounds okay any reports Mr Braverman did you have your hand up yes I want a report on the policy committee um we met last week and we passed all of the policy that was on the agenda tonight the committee asked Dr Hamilton to form a committee on discipline it probably will be primarily about the secondary school the high school however it's generally discipline we asked him to think outside of the box perhaps do some things that aren't being done now if they're not successful but we do have quite a discipline program and he might or the committee might
056just say hey this is this is the way it is we're doing the best we can and we'll just have to go along with it we have no preconceived ideas of what's going to come out of the committee I appointed Mar Klein the liazon to the discipline committee from the policy committee not to the board board will get information as the committee sees fit and we just slightly discussed the background checks for board members which is quite interesting the way it is in the in the shoot right now board members are going to have to have background checks but we can have volunteers and parents walk into every school without being checked there's something wrong with the law or the way they're they're passing it that's that's the policy committee thank you Mr Braverman Mr
057um Kaufman did you have your hand up he didn't yes I did sorry see I saw that behind you behind you Sak I did uh there was a curriculum meeting held uh this week and we are going to have a followup meeting the main topic was to talk about technology and uh look how best we can spend the bond referendum money for technology in the new high school that's opening up so we are going to have a follow-up meeting next week and more to come on that thank you very much any questions for Mr Kaufman Mr tesler yeah my turn okay get my notes um we had a Personnel committee meeting and just to go over what we discussed uh first topic was staff roster uh Dr Hamilton reviewed the staff roster with the committee
058uh noting key vacancies in the district he also advised the committee that there were a few teachers who did not pass the practice test and they will remain at the elementary level uh we have an opportunity to add sections to Oak Tree to help produce the class sies over there next year without adding to the budget based on uh Middle School Staffing numbers um we also uh posted uh for a VP POS VP position at the Middle School uh there is also uh there will be one less VP at the elementary level as a result of reduction in the elementary schools oak tree will have a full-time VP Brookside and Woodland will share a VP and Barkley Brook and mil Lake will not have a VPI as a result of their decreased enrollments topic two
059recall procedures the committee reviewed all the recall procedures and Dr Hamilton also expressed the reductions uh included the necessary number of Staff members to meet the reductions in the advertised budget uh n Affiliates committee was uh presented with recommendation with recommended raises for the non-affiliates these raises are within budgets and for the non- Affiliates and some employees did not receive the full raise uh educational technology facilitator uh Dr Hilton made a recommendation to make the ET 120% allowing for 20 additional work days over the summer and the committee supported the recommendation language arts supervisor job description which we discussed a little earlier the committee reviewed a new job description to to capture all the duties associated with the position uh and the committee supported the new job description and uh Dr Hamilton expressed that he
060wants to try to recruit someone uh who demonstrates expertise in the elementary and middle school writing experience who can Engage The District in the next steps uh to improve balanced literacy and bringing about improved results in the primary grades and that concludes my report are there any questions Miss anelis um I is that a new position it does that mean there'll be two Vice principals at the middle school or are you just replacing somebody who's leading um the the new Middle School will have two Vice principles any other questions Mr Masters what's it doing all the way down there I don't have anything too just a quick comment on the finance committee I didn't want to glance over what you said I I wanted to commend Mr for that frugality and a lot of that
061proactive work he did to saving the district a lot of money I know it's over the next X amount of years it's a million about a million and a half to $2 million I was trying to count as you were rattling it off but I think that's a did a great job that's it thank you very much any other questions okay we will go to um number 15 is there any other business from me members of the Board of Education okay seeing none we will go to the Clos session be it resolved that the Board of Education of the township of Monroe hereby moves to go into closed session in accordance with 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
062Personnel matter superintendent evaluation the discussion conducted in closed session can be disclosed to the public at such time as the matter has been resolved all in favor opposed oh I'm sorry Mr Mr tiella Mr Masters all in favor I opposed okay at this time we will go into close session I don't think we're going to be too long Forum anyone from the public wishing to speak please come to the microphone again and keep your and give your name and address for the record dou good evening good evening my name is Doug boy I live at for hmer Road um I noticed and this will basically serve as an example but on page page 12 of the agenda item dou DF uh they all deal with uh personnel which are being assigned to assist with the
063high school graduation and when I looked at the number of hours and the hourly pay I see that we're going to be spending about $6,000 uh for this Personnel to assist at a high school graduation uh I'm not exactly certain what their function is uh all I can say is that there are many other districts that conduct High School graduations with even larger graduating classes than what we have here at Monroe and they don't spend this money for this purpose and uh I'm using this as an example of uh it's very likely that we have certain procedures uh in place in the district that have been in place over the years that possibly don't really need to exist and uh this is certainly one that I question because I know there are high schools that
064do not do this uh and so they don't have to spend $6,000 for high school graduation uh there's already enough expenses attached to that and I would think if they're there to uh keep the students in line then that raises a question about uh are these young men and women uh able to behave themselves for an hour or so and go through graduation without having somebody whopping them on the back of the head or whatever uh I I just think that needs to be looked at but but it's really a very small item in the sense of uh finding things that are going on in the district that may not be necessary how often does the administration or does the board look to see what else is going on uh I'll give you a second
065example of this and I don't know what the figure is but I was uh as you know I've lived here in Monroe for many many years and when I heard that we were hiring security Personnel for the buildings I I I said for what why is that being done and I can tell you there are many districts in the state as large and larger than hillsbor than Monroe who do not have security Personnel uh that's more money being spent and I think that needs to be reviewed I know you get security aid but I know that security Aid can be spent on things other than Personnel I believe but maybe not I'm not sure uh the other item and I don't know if you can uh address this but there was a gentleman here who
066spoke about the lighting for the high school stage and I know that bid was awarded tonight because that's been approved uh is that money coming from the bond money or is that coming from the regular budget Mr Gorski just in time um to answer uh your latter question it is Bond referendum money that is still under the New Jersey procurement laws required to go out to bid um we had an open public bid and the lowest qualified bidder whose bid was reviewed by our Engineers from design ideas group the board's architectural firm and also the construction attorneys from W determined uh that the one that was on the agenda tonight was the lowest qualified bidder and that we are required to um give the bid to that bidder um can I even though my time
067is up can I ask then a subsequent question that ties into that okay uh because there was a gentleman here who said that uh in his opinion we were spending almost $25,000 more because the specifications required tungsten lighting and I I noticed you know the board didn't make any response to that but if in fact we can we can essentially produce the same type of lighting uh that's needed I mean this is not a Broadway Theater that we're talking about here uh if we can produce it at $25,000 less then why aren't we doing that uh and I don't know if you can comment on that or not tonight I I realized it was in the specifications I realized the bid was awarded to the lowest bidder but it to me it it does raise
068the question as to why didn't the specifications allow for alternate forms of lighting why did they insist on it being tungston lighting and I don't know anything about lighting so you know I I I can't you know come to any understanding of that myself but I would appreciate if either at this meeting or some future meeting uh that could be clarified and okay Mr Gorski I could tell you I'm not an expert in that area either but uh I did speak to Mr T about the bid and I understand the bid specs as a whole and I think it's easy to pick one uh component of a larger unit such as that uh TV studio and uh say in my opinion this is not the most efficient way of approaching this project perhaps not understanding
069the complexity of how it all operates as a whole or the fact that you may have to go back now redesign some other component because you've now changed the lighting I could tell you as a whole it was reviewed by Engineers from design ideas group again and it was deemed to be efficient and uh an efficient appropriate use of board money and and I realize you have to rely on expertise for those types of things yes can I make one more comment yes uh I have four grandchildren in the school system they attend different buildings in the school system uh and all I can say is for the last three to four weeks ever since the New Jersey ass task have been done whenever I talk to my grandchildren I see them often I hear
070that there is very little instruction going on in the schools I hear there's a lot of packing going on uh I hear in one case that they cannot do the regular instruction because the so the room is so filled with cartons uh I hear that we're being taught stuff that we were being taught back in January and and all I'm saying is we're paying a lot of money uh for salaries for teachers to conducting instruction uh and for me to have started hearing this shortly uh I would say it was before the end of May that I was hearing these kind of comments uh I am bringing it to the board's attention because I hope that next year at this same time when these four grandchildren continue to be in the Monroe school system that
071I will not be hearing those things uh repeated because I was really upset when I heard that uh I I'm not NE blaming the teachers but somebody needs to be watching what's going on in the classrooms at the end of the school year and I thank you thank you Miss anelis Mr Po I I would just like to address uh your comment about the security you know many years ago um we had a gentleman walked into mil Lake uh School looking for his son uh that gentleman's son was an adult he had some mental problems we have had other instances of people walking into the school I don't understand why you wouldn't want Security in the school if something were to happen would you expect the teachers to organize and and if you think that
072nothing will ever happen here or doesn't you got to read the paper because if we ever start thinking it can't happen here that's when it's going to happen we we should have security I'm sorry in every single school um I and I think for the sake of our children and your other comment about your grandchildren you know every day my kids would come home and you know what I used to say so what' you do in school today you know what they told me nothing I didn't believe them um so I I think that asking a student sometimes about what's going on in the school maybe you kind of get a skewed uh answer Mr Klein not too long ago we had voted on um additional Monies to be paid to our teachers for packing
073and unpacking at the new school and um I took it for granted that it's the same scenario in the regular schools where they're not being transferred to another District I am very much concerned that if they're doing packing on full school days that's wrong if it's like we had e Brunswick or we had when I was a kid many moon ago where you had half days your last two days or three days and you did packing I remember we used to help in in Brooklyn we used to help the teachers like the last two days because they were half days but if it's full days and there were loads of boxes and these kids are not being taught these kids are supposed to be taught x amount of days a year and if we're going
074to pay extra for after the school uh the school year is over then uh something's wrong here and I think that's something we should look at okay thank you Mr Klein Mr Kaufman um you'll get there I uh I want to address the issue about uh graduation and the staff members and the and the way we happen to do graduation um I was fortunate enough or unfortunate enough to have a student who graduated in the last graduating class that we had here in Monro Township on the high school field and I know some of the other board members remember that day of days um as many of you may remember um who are in the staff uh in this in the seats tonight uh it was a Consolidated effort after that um end of days
075class of rain um and I remember walking out with my fellow board members wearing sunglasses on the way out to the field cuz the sun was out and while watching the sheet of rain come across Thompson Park as some of you may recall it was it was crazy uh we decided then um because what you probably didn't see was the unbelievable amount of students typically uh the young ladies coming up and crying hysterically because their for lack of a better term faces right had completely disintegrated um the iron the the irony here is this was my son that this was happening to and the exact same thing happened to me when I graduated and I told them you'll remember this forever that's the good side uh we made a conscious effort from a board's perspective
076to not let that happen again uh we have a great facility in New Jersey that allows us to host this facility inside uh and we want to take advantage of it because that gives us a lot of things uh we don't have to worry about how hot it is because sweltering heat is also a concern from a health perspective uh so we have a great air conditioning environment where uh graduations can be held uh it is pretty chaotic behind the scenes uh there are a lot of students converging on a very small space and uh that it's not necessarily that they're unruly it's more of an excitement thing and the staff that's there does a wonderful job of corralling everyone to make sure they're exactly where they need to be because it is a very
077very well orchestrated event another thing to consider too is what we have now which we didn't have then was we have a new field that has a completely different surface that's out there and we've been told repeatedly that if we try to put uh chairs out on that field uh because of the way it's designed and it's not meant to have chairs on it uh we can do a reputable damage to the field and we're looking to protect our investments wherever we possibly can so as far as this board member is concerned um I'm going to continue endorse uh putting graduation down in the it's not Commerce Bank or what whatever it's called SunBank to tomorrow will be somebody else's right uh that place um indefinitely so and actually we had to rent the chairs
078and the podium for the graduation so that was a cost that we don't have now and in regard to um your child graduating on that wonderful day in um 2007 my son did too and his comment was Mom this was the best day of high school ever so it's perception um Mr tesler did you have a question comment sure sure just a comment I guess everybody has their own perspective but uh just from uh my three kids my oldest one's a junior at Monro high school and um she has uh been quite inundated with work over the past few weeks getting prepared for finals and believe I believe me I hear it every night um my eighth grader is uh has a quiz tomorrow and is just assigned a social studies project with on Monday
079which is due the end of the week so there's no lack of work there and my little one in uh second grade uh she's doing just as matter as work as she did all year so uh I guess all kids can come home with their own stories but I know excuse me from my perspective uh there's still a lot of teaching going on thank you we are still on the public forum so anyone from the public wishing to speak please come to the microphone state your name and address for the record and we will try to hold all comments from board members till after the public forum that's okay my name is Phil Levy I live at 92 Kingsmill Road I don't want to take anything away from my friend Doug po but a ww
080which you awarded this TV studio bid um listening to the uh Mr Su speaking uh as I understand he was one of the biders on the job and that you use design IDE ideas group as one of your uh uh people that you go as a consultant okay from what I understand and from what Mr Sully said and what I looked at the plans that he showed me and from his description tungsten lighting is rapidly becoming obsolete in California you no longer can buy a 100 watt incandescent light bolt it's illegal and that will happen here for the rest of the country January 1st 2012 because tungston is an inefficient source of light fluorescent lighting is color corrected much EAS easier to control and costs less to operate also LED technology it's in its infancy
081but everything you see is Led at the light fair in Pennsylvania Convention Center everything is Led just go to the to the uh Monroe Township Council uh and you'll see that they changed all of the street lights there in the parking lot to LED had a fantastic Savings of money from the electrical point of view and from the replacement point of view because they last in excess of 100,000 hours so I think that although the board used somebody that they know I think this design ideas group I think that they didn't do as much due diligence as they could have because this company approved something that is rapidly becoming obsolete thank you thank you anyone else from the public AR Mino um uh your address please N9 Nathaniel street thank you um miss konowitz you
082mentioned that you're the new one of the new committies is going to be about legislative uh take taking a look at that on the state level does the board board have an outline their own outline um to propose what is fair and Equitable funding formulas I I believe that what we're looking at when we have um comprise a chart of what we make or what we get from State funding and what comparable FG District Factor groups get and we're looking to make sure that if we are a socioeconomic equal group FG j a whatever that you should all be making the or receiving the same am amount of aid from the state and that's what we're looking for to make sure that each group is getting the same amount of Aid okay but that's that's
083using the old model you implied that you're looking to see if there's new models for Equitable and fair funding because everybody keeps saying that the the model that exists now is not fair and Equitable so in order to move forward um and because it's the same old story every year this is like the fifth year we've heard the same problem so wouldn't it behoove the board and the new committee to come up with what they perceive from an educational standpoint something fair and Equitable I I'm not sure what we had looked at this year and I know Mr Kaufman did a really good job of looking at the state formula the state formula was about 40 pages long and after you got through the second page you couldn't figure out what you were getting or
084why I think our job is to make sure that whatever the formula is is fair to everybody in that particular group I'm I'm not sure that we're supposed to come up with the formula really the state's obligation to um thoroughly and efficiently educate all students and we just want to make sure that our students in Monroe are treated the same way students in for instance Oldbridge or or South Brunswick or treated so and that's an aspect of it I agree with that but it would seem to me that the board is also charged with educating students and would know best what would be fair and Equitable to to assist our budget it's just a suggestion I think I think that's part of what I want this committee to do is to look at as a
085whole um what we can do to get our V voices heard to to first start with making sure that we're getting more than we get now but we've been saying that for five years and we're not getting it yeah we have been saying that I I don't think that we've looked at the numbers like we did this year I don't think we've ever said oh we're only getting $198 per person per student and somebody else is getting 4,000 and I think when we broke it down this year that was something that people in the community were saying you're kidding we only get that much per student why does somebody else get so much more uh that's our question we need to know as a district why we only get certain amount of money and somebody
086else who's a comparative District Factor group of FG get so much more so we have more questions that we need answers for and I'm hoping hoping that the committee um will ask those questions and come up with something okay um also uh you were talking about the solar electric and the Builder providing um you know uh a request to do solar and get taken advantage you know to have the board take advantage of that before that decision is made can the board do a ver a cost uh analysis of purchasing versus renting because it may because if the board if the school system does it themselves you will be entitled to what they call the srex which is the solar well it's srec I don't know what it actually all mean so but I mean
087that can you if it's that good that a builder would want to supply that for you there is money to be made there's a profit margin so why can't the board consider that because once you put the solar there it's yours forever I mean we keep I mean going back to the uh um the trailers I mean this is over 10 years now we keep saying well the trailers are going to go away we're going to save all this money now there's even an issue maybe we'll still keep renting them that's going to be the same issue with solar panels why don't we do a cost analysis make the initial investment and then we will have not only the benefit of the the um the grant money or whatever the rebate is but we'll also
088have our own solar panels forever and we can't have a builder take them away because that would be their right Mr Gorski would you like to respond Miss armeno with regard to the solar panels um it's not necessarily a builder's initiative it's it's run through the county and uh the key benefit of that aspect is the district doesn't have to come up with any Capital expenditures which are in the size and scope of a bond referendum in order to address the installation of solar panels and you're right the the Shrek solar renewable energy credits are significant District earns about $30,000 a year on our oak tree school second proposal that was discussed tonight at committee was using some of the bond referendum money that we may have uh under our budget to install solar panels
089on the roof in that case we would be the owner and we would enjoy not only the roll back of the energy rates but also the Shreks srex which are subject to government uh renewal every year well I think that's a bond referendum that would make sense and I think uh posed properly and shown that it is will actually be a a savings or a benefit to the board in the future I you know people are not people it's not the use of funds that is a problem for people uh on bond ref reference it's the waste of funds and if you can show that it's in the future it is absolutely the best in the best interest and and good policy for the board I'm sure that would pass because it's specific and you
090can show what value it has to the to the public and it's it's not a it's not some abstract it's a very definite mathematical equation um I would also just like to finally um thank Mr Klein for his comprehensive committee reports it's it's refreshing I know everybody wants to go home but it's refreshing to the public to hear uh comprehensive committee reports I hope everyone takes that lead and does that and thank you Miss Mr Braverman for uh supporting employees on on the levels where they're less powerful than others and and don't have the same kind of um Financial benefits that some do so I think that that's great and I think that's it oh and just one other thing back to how citizens are treated when they come up with suggestions instead of outright
091dismissing uh the Public's concern or perception of things that are going on it would be real refreshing to hear the board say gee we we we don't entirely agree with you if you don't but it would it does take some looking into I mean people come up to this Podium who are sincerely interested in what goes on in this community and to outright dismiss them and is is to me inappropriate for the board so I'd like again something refreshing would be that if board members would take the time to at least respect what's said and even if you disagree maybe look into it anyway not every teacher is packing right now or not teaching but I've actually heard on other levels that a lot there's a lot of movies being shown uh throughout the year
092in classes and not not educational movies either just fillers so things are being said I don't think children are making it up thank you thank you Miss armeno anyone else from the public okay seeing no one we will close public forum Mr Klein did you have a comment yes uh Mr Mino brought up um the subject about the board coming up with what we felt would be our fair share and um I definitely agree that the formula is a waste of time it's a waste of effort and it's a bunch of baloney as I've written and spoke about at these meetings for months and I've written it and it's been printed in the paper at the proper way way of financing schools is with a base that everybody receives the same base and I had
093picked a figure out of the air and said well if every school district received $6,000 per student and then your special ed population would get x amount of dollars more and special circumstances so your poor districts where they have to give breakfast and and other services they would receive more but everybody is starting off on the same plane field field now I've said that for two years I've written about it for two years well lo and behold senator darity of Washington New Jersey um wants to hold Town Hall meetings about just that subject and the suggestion he comes up with is that every school should receive $748 per student and that we would be receiving based on our school population last year 42,700 some odd dollars 42 42 million I can't read oh my glasses
094yeah sorry can you rewrap that we would be getting 42,73318 se2 annually from the state now you're talking Fair even if you go with the figures that Mr ly came up with where he just went with the FG districts within middle sex County we wind up receiving at that point 20 somewhat million dollar we only get this coming year 1.1 million and this was brought up in the presence of the governor at his town hall meetings both by myself and other people from Jamesburg and Monroe Township we spoke to Linda Greenstein and we get the same answer and the Department of Education in Trenton everything comes back to they fall back on the formula well the formula don't work there's no way that they could show any formula that equates to us receiving $198 a
095student so if you want to know a figure I would go $6,000 a student $6500 a student plus additional money for state for um special ed now you got a deal now it's fair and Equitable that way you keep turning over hundreds of millions of dollars and what you see in the newspaper is only state aid not federal aid you know what we get with federal aid $86,000 do you know what new gets between state aid federal aid and other sources $800 million and they just sent them more money and as I've said all along until will the parents the unions get up and speak and say we are being raped in middle in Monroe Township middle sex County we're not the Monroe Township down the shore we're Monroe Township middle sex County we're being
096raped it's unfair to our students it's unfair to our taxpayers and it's unfair to our employees and something has to be changed thank you Mr Klein any of the board members if not our next scheduled public Board of Education meeting will be held Wednesday July 20th 2011 7:00 p.m. at the high school motion to adjourn Mr Mr Kaufman Mr Mr Klein all in favor opposed motion carried meeting adjourned