001pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands nation under God indivisible liy and justice for all Mr Gorski R call Mr Braverman Mr Chella here Mr Klein here School or not ready take it from the top where is the retreat Mr braverman's absent Mr Chella here Mr Klein here M colano here Mr Larry Mrs Leonard here Mr Masters here Mr tesler here M Fon here Mr board president I'm here you have a quarum sir thank you sir um item number four statement for Board of Education president in accordance with the provisions of the New Jersey public open Public's meeting law the mono Township Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the DAT time and place thereof posted February
00211 2011 one at all schools two at home News Tribune three gr press and four filed with the clerk of un municipality item number five student board members [Music] report good evening uh to start off uh for Barkley BG Elementary School there will be uh uh kindergarten registration for last names n through r at 1: p.m. um for last names uh s through Z barkle Brook's PTA school store will be held on Wednesday March 2nd family reading night will be at Barkley Brook at 6 p.m. on March 4th and the PTA is holding a variety show at mono Township High School on March 5th uh tomorrow night is a mono Township's District Coral concert at Woodland Elementary School and at Woodland uh M PTO will be uh holding it's PTO meeting on Thursday March 3rd
003at 7:30 p.m. and for oak tree this Thursday this Friday excuse me uh there is a PTA sponsor assembly at Oak tree for grades 5 through six next Friday February 25th a dare assembly will be held at Oak tree this week Brookside held its jump rope and hope Hoops for heart program for all grades this Friday brookside's PTA is holding its cultural fair from March 1st to March 3rd there will be a hespa testing for grade 11 so there will be delayed opening for grades 9 10 and 12 the booster club meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. here in the media center on March 2nd and finally schools closed for schools closed on February 21st for President's Day and February 22nd for staff and service okay great approval of adits public Board of Education
004meeting January 18th 2011 rescheduled from I'm sorry that public oh public forum I'm sorry anyone wishing to speak before the board please come up state your name and address for the [Music] record see I didn't skip it I just anticipate that's [Music] call good evening I'm Doug boy for tamarak Road um I apologize I could not attend last month's meeting when there was a presentation on the uh results of uh last year's uh assessment testing uh and I think the district can be quite proud of of how our students did in the uh language arts uh aspect of that performance assessment however uh the results in mathematics both at grade 8 and at the 11th grade uh were in my opinion far from satisfactory um and I'm just curious and if this was covered at
005the last meeting then I apologize for not being aware of that but I'm curious as to what steps are being taken uh to better prepare those students uh so that those performances do improve and the other question I noticed in looking at the results for the uh Jamesburg 8th grade uh their eighth grade mathematics as well as their language arts uh were considerably low uh compared to Monroe and they are ascending District uh therefore I was C curious as to what our district might be doing uh to coordinate or work with the Jamesburg school system so that the students coming into the high school uh are better prepared I think it's to the benefit of those students as well as to the benefit of our district since those students results do appear in the 11th
006grade assessment okay I'll take that um thank you for your question Mr P how are you this evening fine thank you um we actually have uh Applegarth school is currently on an improvement plan um as a result of the eighth grade assessment and that Improvement plan uh targets very specifically what areas of improvement need to occur we're looking at student achievement data relative to where students were last year as seventh graders and to establish what patterns may exist that may help us identify what instructional strategies need to be developed or further um embellished if you will in order to address that moving forward however when those youngsters are graders uh next year we met as recently as today as a matter of fact to look at how we could restructure the math program at the
007high school well at the current High School for the middle school students that will also address that and that will include some additional strategies for our teachers some additional professional development and looking at a way to restructure how classes are addressing the various math needs including perhaps doubling some of the math periods at the 11th grade we just conducted our instructional rounds here at the High we just finished up yes day before yesterday we're debriefing the staff tomorrow and during that debrief we'll talk about commendable features of the math program we'll make some recommendations for moving forward and then we'll talk about next steps when we meet with the staff tomorrow okay and regarding Jamesburg um we do have some articulation with Jamesburg um because we lost our math supervisor last year it has not
008happened as consistently as it has previously but we are working on improving that as well with our math coordinator that were put in place this year uh thank you for for those responses um at at last can I just address add that um we have about 60 kids per grade so unfortunately one or two children can skew our numbers severely because we track K to8 and when we track it as far as the children going through the district the numbers are usually higher but we do some of the transient population tends to throw the numbers off but we also address consistently and when the kids get up here they they are able to integrate quite easily into the um programs here but we monitor it very closely also but again as I said we since
009our population is so small one or two um students can throw the numbers off drastically so yes I'm aware you know how that can be affected there uh but thank you uh the 11th grade assessment essentially has been given in New Jersey for many many years um and to still see that the Monroe High School students are score scoring uh in terms of the percent total percent passing uh being less than um less than 80% I I'm just curious are we really doing things radically different than what we've done in the past because uh if we're not then we're not going to see the improvements that I would have thought would have already occurred over that long period of testing because the test hasn't radically changed at the high school level over all that period
010of time well the test did change significantly last year um but that not that that's an excuse it's an explanation of course but the fact of the matter is we are doing some things that are radical as are many New Jersey high schools as as a part of the ubd understanding by Design work that's being going that's going on with Grant Wiggins and we're hoping that that in and of itself will help us restructure the high school so it's not the traditional High School in that regard but really changing teaching strategy so that it reflects the higher standards that our students are expected to meet the other thing that we should begin to see manifest itself at the 11th grade level is the implementation of connected math now the connected math series next year you
011should really see the benef we should see the benefit of that program as those youngsters will have progressed through the system and have been had an opportunity to get acclimated to the new math initiative which is at the elementary and middle school levels okay fine thank you and just one other request uh when we get to the business administrators part of the report uh if you could put in layman terms what items I think it's q&r are all about because I read it and it just you know it's way over my head thank you than you Mr anyone else seeing no one um next item item number seven approval of the minutes public Board of Education meeting January 18th 2011 which was rescheduled from January 12th do have a motion I'm moved second mron Mr
012tesler all those in favor I opposed questions next close session meeting January 18th which was rescheduled for J from January 12th motion move Mr tesler M Fon all those in favor iOS questions right next item superintendent report enrollment report for the month of January is included on the agenda um again you see the difference between uh last year January 31st of last year and this year is 134 students We are continuing to see an increase in student enrollment at Oak Tree in particular uh the enrollment is continuing to grow we are currently looking at uh class size projections for next year at Oak Tree and while some of the other schools are growing they certainly are not growing at that rate many of them are are pretty stable um oak tree continues to be a
013concern in terms of student enrollment there um the outof district placement reports are also included the numbers are the same from last month to this month there's been no change and home instruction that report is slightly different we were able to return some of those students um off of home instruction most of them are bed written or or have some medical condition that warrants uh homebound instruction um the fire drill is listed on the agenda there are uh the fire drills and the lockdown drills are included there for your review moving on to the Personnel report items a through z Mr President and members of the Board of Education it is recommended by the superintendent that personel items A through Z be approved by roll call vote so moved second local question questions uh I
014had a question about the fire drills I no that some schools had two and others had one has the state ever figured out whether we need two plus a lock down or one and the lock down it is one plus the lock down that's all our chief here in town requires some principls have elected to continue to do the two thank you Mr also when we get to enrollment Monroe High School we showed plus three in reality it's minus 12 there's a misprint high school they went from 1661 to 1649 that is correct I have I'll have that corrected for the next any other questions call Mr tesler yes Mrs Fon yes Leonard yes Mr Chella yes Mrs colano yes Mr Klein yes Masters yes Mr calman yes Mr board president Personnel items A to
015Z passes Mr President and members of the Board of Education as recommended by the superintendent that board action items a through L be approved by roll call vote so moved second questions let roll call yes Mr tesler yes Mrs Fon yes Mrs Leonard yes Mr Chella yes Mrs kapano yes Mr Klein yes Mr Masters yes Mr calman yes Mr board president board action items a through L passes Mrs Leonard with those questions sufficiently answered for you yes very that concludes the superintendent's report right business administrator report Mr board president and members of the Board of Education it is recommended that board action items a through P be approved by consent roll call Some Mo second Mr tesler questions comments those two it yes those those are um q and R it'll come next any other
016questions roll call Mr tesler yes Mrs Fon yes Mrs Leonard yes Mr Chella yes Mrs kapano yes Mr Klein yes Mr Masters yes Mr calman yes Mr board president board action items a through P passes and if I may take a moment to discuss um items q and R sure um as part of the budget process this year the district reviewed um the outstanding debt schedules and uh I solicited some work from our financial adviser and in the current interest rate environment it has been determined that if we re refinance and I say that word because we refinanced the 2002 Bonds in 2002 obviously uh but rates are favorable enough now that we can refinance them again um and depending on the exact interest rates when the bonds are sold it could save the district
017in the neighborhood of $850,000 to a million dollar over the duration of the bonds um so that that refers to item q and r q is a resolution U to go before the local Finance board which is required for such a refinancing and uh R is the first reading and adoption um the second will occur on March 23rd meeting okay so you want to read them independently um you want to take them together independently okay and our bond counselor is present today um Mr Jackie shanus if anybody would like uh any further explanation uh first is item Q Mr board president and members of the Board of Education it is recommended that board action item Q which reads resolution making application to local Finance board be approved by consent roll call so moved Leonard second
018Mr cherella questions roll call Mr tesler yes Mrs fon Mrs Leonard yes Mr Chella yes Mrs kapano St out she stepped out Mr Klein yes Mr Masters yes Mr calman yes Mr board president item Q passes Mr board president and members of the Board of Education it is recommended that board action item R which reads resolution refunding Bond ordinance of the Board of Education be approved by consent roll call this is the first reading there will be a final reading and adoption at the March 23rd meeting motion I'll move secondine Miss lard questions roll call Mr tesler yes Mrs foni yes Mrs Leonard yes Mr Chella yes Mrs K Pano Mr Klein yes Mr Masters yes Mr calman yes Mr board president item R passes right that concludes the business administrative report great uh next
019item is the board president's report um I don't really have anything that I need to speak to um I know everybody have committees that have been going on so I'm just going to um move right into committee's reports um item number 10 committee reports anyone Mr Tesla Tes m sure thank you Ken on February 10th we had a curriculum committee uh meeting uh three topics were discussed topic number one is um a refinement to the adult education program in addition to our courses we currently offer uh we're going to be offering online courses uh by using a service called ID to go uh they'll be web based classes uh they're not self-study they are instru instructor Leed uh classes and they offer a wide range of courses and we'll probably be offering a subset of
020128 100 to 128 uh courses uh to whoever would like to take them nice thing about it is there are no startup costs to the district um they'll provide us our own branded website uh if we like with our Monro logo on it um and uh basically uh people can sign up for the classes online put in their credit card and we'll make a markup so it's kind of a win-win people get to take more courses which we can't currently offer here and we make some money on them with no cost to us and at service is Ed to go and you can Google it and you can actually go and see their cost offering uh online today um we had a little technology update um our contract with uh Verizon internet service is uh
021up this year and uh Comcast has offered us a contract uh going uh basically increasing our B B withd tfold for half the cost so that's kind of a no-brainer there so uh when the new high school opens are bandwidth uh coming into the district our internet bandwidth we going from 10 megabytes to 100 megabytes at half the price um next subject is uh we just got to look at some new uh football uniforms some new coloring um I'm probably color blinds I am color blinds so I'm probably the worst person to look at that but we all approved and like the new colors uh for the uh uniform uh the last top uh last topic was um uh summer math uh currently uh we um have a summer reading but we do not have
022any type of summer math that uh get sent home for the children to do to keep up on their math skills so a proposal was uh introduced by uh Mr faroh over at Applegarth and um uh for approval and we'll be uh um in U in at certain grades we'll be giving home um summer math package that the kids will be required to do and turn in and they will be uh graded in the beginning of the year just like we do summer reading we got some samples uh of the packets and letters that will be going home over the summer to the students and um if you like uh to see that um I'm sure you can uh drop an email to Mr Faro they were handed out in our curriculum meeting that probably
023can be provided as part of one of our packets uh home but these summer packets will be distributed at the end of the school year and also be available on the website um so in case the kids like mine probably will lose them by the time August comes around when they need to do them uh they'll be available for them to download as well and we also address some other subjects that we'll be looking into further that if the children have any questions or things like that over the summer um for some extra help or on that too so that's kind of still in the works but uh in addition to Summer uh reading I think a summer math would be a great addition to keep the kids uh up in uh their math skills
024thank you that concludes my report thank you Mr tesler anyone else Miss Leonard uh unfortunately I had car trouble and couldn't make the curricular meeting um but I did have some questions about the math pro project can I ask them sure um the go on the the grading of them how will they be graded how will they affect their first marking period grade um I'm I I think it's a really good idea but I'm on the fence of having somebody come in with an F if they didn't do it right from day1 they will be graded they will be waited in the same way that the summer reading packet will be graded in to the extent that there will be a test given similar to the summer reading package that teachers would be required to
025grade and give students feed feedback on and the thinking on that is if the teachers aren't going to invest the time into grading the packet what would be the incentive for kids to do it um so that's as far as we gotten that discussion actually we have a few more protocols that we need to establish in terms of how we communicate that out to parents and will this be Project based or worksheet type a combination of the two okay thank you right I know I know my kids if there's not a grade involved or if you say it's optional they won't do it so you have to you have to give the kids incentives or some some way of uh you know doing it for a grade I I agree and but I just you
026know I feel for the kid who doesn't have the strong parent that says you got to get this done it's time to do this that they already come in they're at they're at a detriment to begin with without strong parental support and then we're going to give them an F to start with because they don't get this done where is their incent then to work from September to you know it's like I said I'm for it and I agree and it has to be graded but that there's that other part of me too that for the students who don't have the parents saying you know this is August let's download it let's get it done let's put it in your book bag let's let's get it in there well we've been talking about having several
027methods of support available for youngsters including a call-in procedure if they needed to to get help so in addition to keeping kids up to date on their math skills so they don't lose that information over the summer we also want youngers to begin to take greater responsibility for their own learning and if we have the support systems in place for them so that it is essentially failure free then the expectation is that they'll take advantage of those resources okay and and that's I guess what I'm looking for yes thank you anyone else okay another Board of educ business um yes oh go ahead I cut you off well I'm sorry go right ahead okay followup from the last meeting uh as I announced at the last meeting um I sent a letter to is there
028an echo in here only on you Mark bourbon does it all the time anyway I sent a letter to Chief Justice rabner concerning our problems along with the acting commissioner of the Department of Education I'm happy to say I did get a call yesterday Dr Hamilton knows about it her name is Cynthia I could not make out her last name and thank God for this because I have the phone number to bug her now she doesn't call me um and again as we all know it's about the amount of money that we get or the money we're not getting so I just wanted to update you on that the second thing is and I made copies of this new newspaper article that I dropped off for everybody it seems and this has been going on
029for months now the superintendent of Piscataway and the superintendent of Woodbridge have been complaining about their cuts and um in all the newspapers that they felt the cuts were unfair and then I see on here with Piscataway Piscataway has a budget of $100 million similar to us they were receiving $17 million we were receiving about4 Million by the time they beat us out of the $500,000 every year for the last two years uh Piscataway is complaining they got caught they got cut to $14 million 12 or 14 million I got to read it on here let me see 12 million they got cut to 12 million and that's a hardship for them you understand we're down to $236,000 and that's not a hardship now um according to this article and you read it the state
030supreme court ordered the hearing in January it will end March 31st why aren't we involved why can't we contact the judge that is listening I think he's in the appell division that is listening to this case and he has to make the decision on whether financing should be changed and whether um the inner city should get more of their money back I mean uh you had per andoy receiving $144 million and they were cut by 4% I mean the whole thing is unfair why I think it's time that we contact this judge and find out whether we can have a hearing with him to let him know firsthand what we're going through here cuz I'll be very honest with you and we only have a few of the parents here if I had to vote
031today on opening up the new high school I'd vote against it on a premise that we cannot afford it until the state gives us what we are entitled to and not that we go to our residents to keep raising taxes to keep our system going if this um school board if this District was a private Corporation the Union would have forced us out of business 6 years ago 8 years ago we cannot go to the residents for more money we must do everything in our power I have tried it I've been working on this God since last year we now have to get involved with this um um judge to hear our side of the story p scataway is doing one hell of a job Woodbridge is doing one hell of a job I don't
032think we are and I think this is the opportunity for us to step forward and get it in the paper I know we have somebody here from one of the newspapers and now start to spread word we're not going to stay with $236,000 that's it thank you sure um Mr Klein I just want to respond to uh one of your one of your qu your questions um Monroe was not we explored whether or not we would be able to be a part of a a lawsuit similar to that filed by Piscataway and Woodbridge and we were not deemed to be um viable plaintiffs in that case because of the fact that when we suffered our Cuts last year we were um very careful not to have the kind of impact on instructional programs that some
033of the other districts like pasca andwood Bridge suffered for instance we did not have the massive cuts and Personnel that they had we did not increase class size we didn't cut our art and music programs to the extent that other places did so after exploring that it was not deemed that we would be a viable plaintiff that would help charge be a part of that charge to the state to seek reinstatement of that Aid now of course if there is a lawsuit filed and it is a successful lawsuit we would still be the beneficiaries of that that decision but we were not deemed to be viable candidates uh for that lawsuit okay now what this is this is not a lawsuit this was a request by the New Jersey Supreme Court for this judge to
034have hearings on I don't know how many districts are involved all it seems to be in this of the two there's got to be more so it's not a lawsuit the Supreme Court is asking this Justice to come up with a determination whether um certain districts are are losing uh how would you put it programs uh the students are suffering you know do we have to make the students suffer before we get any movement unfortunately we have to fire 300 teachers or or drop every special ed program we have or every every tag program we have is that what the state wants I say not I say that we get in touch with this judge and find out if he's willing to hear the story that we have to tell and what it gets me
035is here you got bcat away and they can stand on their head when they tell us we're a wealthy area you got 50 or 55% of the people here are retired people East Brunswick gets more than we do I lived in East Brunswick and you got a lot more wealthier people there and they're getting a hell of a lot more money than we get and what I'm saying is this whole the formula is wrong the whole system stinks and if we sit back and we just keep giving and giving and just go to the resident say Okay residents we're going to raise you x amount of dollars we already know what medical went up medical went up 177% by the way in today's paper then I'll shut up in today's paper there's an article that
036the state wants to go after the state employees earning $100,000 or more and charge them 30% of their medical insurance their insurance is somewhere around $30,000 that's $9,000 remember what I said and we're not going to discuss it here you know what my idea was on that and it proves that I'm not far off thank you thank you anyone else Mr tesler I I can really follow that but I just wanted to let the Board of Education know that on March 19th the Monro Ed foundation will be hosting a fundraiser it'll be a basketball game uh it'll be the teachers uh versus the police department it's the basketball game will be played right here uh at the gym admission is $5 so just come out and root for your favorite teacher or police officer and
037uh have a lot of fun thank you police officers give tickets I'm going to root for the police officers anyone else um we need to make a couple of date changes on some upcoming board uh meetings it is recommended that the mono Township Board of Education cancel the public Board of Education meeting scheduled for Wednesday March 9th 2011 at 7:00 and reschedule a meeting for Thursday March 3rd at 7 p.m due to timelines necessary to follow uh for the uh submission of the 2011 2012 budget to the uh County so move second Mr kin discussion oh just so I'm clear it went it was the first but now it's the third it was the nth yesth okay the third it's the third now okay roll call Mr tesler yes Mrs Fon yes Mrs Leonard yes
038Mr Chella yes Mrs kapano Mr Klein yes Mr Masters yes Mr calman yes Mr board president motion passes uh it is also recommended that the Board of Education approve a board retreat to be held on Saturday February 26th at 9:00 a.m. at the Monro Township High School to discuss the district goal mission and vision statement so moved leard second Mr Klein discussion roll roll call Mr tesler yes Mrs Ferron yes Mrs Leonard yes Mr Chella yes Mrs kapano Mr Klein yes Mr Masters Mr calman yes Mr board president motion passes thank you okay any other board of education business see not item number 12 close session resolution be a resolved at the board of education of the township Monroe hereby moves to go into close session in accordance with Sunshine Law chapter 231 of the
039public laws of 1975 mjsa 10 4-6 through 10 4-21 to discuss the following subjects negotiations update the discussion conducted in closed session can be disclosed to the public at such time as the matters have been resolved second I'm going to have to give it to um Kathy K and Kathy all those in favor I I oppos discussion cles be [Music] back okay welcome back everybody um we're going to continue to move forward item 13 public forum anyone wishing to speak before the board please come up state your name and address for the record [Music] be nice I'm going to be very nice Jennifer Marcus 24 Carnation Road um and I always tell everybody I sold my house in Monro man or I'm building um a house in Southfield so that I could remain within the
040oak tree area that being said I understand everything going on with building and development and everything and my question is about zoning that in Monroe Manor I'm still there right now and I see just houses coming up and coming up and coming up and my question is what can we do in terms of Township why does the township keep getting permits to be building when our school system can accommodate what's coming up I mean I saw one house that they broke ground for right on the corner where I don't even think it was a lot and they they kind of angled the house and stuck it there and I just I don't know how the school is going to you know compensate for that and and and it just seems like the builders I I'm
041just I I know I'm in the wrong place I know I should be zoning and planning and well and that's why I'm asking where can I go who can I talk to and how come I'm the only one is my other question I'll just respond and then I'll give it over to Mr Klein because I know he's just eagerly waiting to respond am I the only one that ask question gave me $10 for that question right I'm surprised he's even letting me talk right now um it's a fabulous question it just happens to be the wrong venue uh it's obviously the municipality right um we we we have to react our ability to be proactive in a lot of this stuff is fairly well limited okay um houses can go up you know know people
042have the right to buy land develop it if it's within the you know the zoning to allow that to happen um so but why is it continuing when we're seeing you know we're looking at the numbers at Oak Tree and we're saying they're just going up and up and up and up and there's just more and more houses going up and up why are they why are we still putting up houses and still bringing kids in when we're at capacity because Builders can there's nothing to stop is there anything I can you get like a zoning I don't know what it's called that you have to have a minimum amount of land in order to put a house on it like is that something that's it's all based on I know Mark is like please
043please to I know a lot of it's based on the master plan and every part of town is zoned for a certain amount of clusters and how many homes you could put in certain you know lots and blocks but how come the builders don't have to I thought Monroe did increase the size of the Lots you can't no they're very small lots that are going M Laurel you're not allowed yeah and there's condos coming up there's Court homes coming in there and I don't know how oak tree I mean you know I've been following the whole thing since the fall so I don't know how oak tree is supposed to come up with a room for these kids who are coming in in droves and I don't understand why the builders or I mean I
044don't know what's going on in terms of future I know I can look it up and find out what's coming in but how come it's continuing to happen when we have a problem with the schools I'll do this for you I will let Mark speak but I'm going to tell Mark that he's got three minutes to respond because I know you're you're you're in his wheelhouse right now and uh um Mark if you wouldn't be if you wouldn't mind try to make it as fast as possible first of all you want to voice that at a town council meeting um you should attend a planning board meeting bring that up at a planning board meeting now just to give you a fast background yes we we've been fortunate here that probably the last 12 to
04515 years the bulk of your new building were over 55 communities of which I live in one so here you have a large influx of tax dollars coming in no children going into the schools well that market is dry up and the um legislature the state legislature passed a law I believe it was either 2010 or 2009 that any um developer that had gotten approval for an over 55 community and did not take a deposit has a right to apply to the zoning board to have it rezone to family community as compared to age restricted so that's number one number two as far as the builders I agree with you 900% we have no choice if an a area is Zone residential it could be residential for a quarter of an acre so minimum Lots
046quarter of an acre it could be half acre could be an acre if it's if it's residential then they apply to the planning board with a site plan and there really is nothing you can do about it it's when they look for a variance to take it from let's say light industrial to make it res residential then we have control over it but this is something I've been complaining about all along is if we if the enrollment grows so much and people complained about like in my development about the high school they think it's so big man we're going to be that's going to be outgrown probably by 2015 2016 and the people don't understand that um if we had the money coming in from the state it makes it a lot easier to expand
047the schools and probably that would have to happen somewhere up the road but you and other people like yourself have to voice your opinion at the council meetings which I believe is the first Monday of every month just look on the website for zoning and planning and right and then I'm on the zoning board Z and I didn't know if it was zoning or planning so I didn't know no you have two different ones it if they need a variance to do something then they apply to the zoning board if they're building within what the area States the zoning is then they go right to the planning board my suggestion to you is the planning board and the Town Council voice your opinions and the more of you that complain they will react thank you
048I just I'm solo and I just want to say on a side note years ago you were able to request the construction company that was building the development give money to offset the impact on the school district but then they deem that ille you can't do that anymore can't do that they may they one fast point and I'm I'll shut up which was a great incentive this one you're going to love Mount Laurel was for affordable housing and that's where they went into towns like East Bruno and said you no longer can have minimum 34 of an acre we want cluster housing and it created overcrowding well Mount Laurel was supposed to be changed and I was at the affordable housing Committee in Monroe Township a few months ago and had a developer there and
049he was bragging that he was going to build a 100 affordable apartments for families for families that the township would get $71,000 in property taxes now let's think a 100 families at $71,000 is $710 a year and then he brags now these are families we're not talking retirement people we're not talking anything other than families then he brags it and nothing will be paid towards the board of education so they're going to bring in possibly two children per unit is 200 kids and pay nothing towards the education and he was bragging about it and it's a developer who's built these type um developments in other places in New Jersey that was voted down by the committee and I also spoke up up at the committee so please get yourself active when they talk about the
050affordable housing get there and talk that's all I can say thank you thank you for the time Mr President sir no problem great guy nice person today and Mark will be giving Municipal education lessons seminar wa that for three years anyone else wishing to speak before the [Music] board okay seeing no one same the next scheduled Board of Education meeting will be on March 3rd at 700 p.m. at the high school do I have a motion to adjourn I make a motion give that to Mr Klein since he was so eloquent tonight and Kathy is the second all those in favor I opposed are you I made about ation motions out can I get two signatures please