001this is good evening the meeting of the Monroe Township Board of Education will come to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible Liberty justice for [Music] all may we have our vote call Mr Gorski Mrs kapano here Mr Chella here miss anelis here Mr Braverman Mr calman uh here Mr Klein here Mr Larry here Mr Masters here Mr tesler here Mrs Fon here Madam board president you have a thank you in accordance with the provisions of the New Jersey open public meetings law the Monroe Township Board of Education has cause notice of this meeting to be published by having the date time and place thereof posted May 4th 2012 one at
002all schools two home News Tribune three cranberry press and four filed with the clerk of the municipality at this time we will go to number five on the agenda our teacher recognition Awards and before we hand out the awards i' just like to say a couple of short words regarding our teachers um we just had an opportunity before this meeting to honor our honores teachers of the Year Professionals of the year at a dinner from our in the school by um students from The Culinary 1 and two and the international Gourmet classes so they've done an excellent job in their service and their preparation so I'd like to commend them and thank them for um a wonderful dinner this has always been one of our favorite days in the Board of Education because it's the
003opportunity that we have to honor some of our outstanding Educators in our district these people that we honor tonight are not just teachers and Educators but our role models caregivers counselors supporters disciplinarians problem solvers decision makers and that's just to name a few they go beyond Beyond and above the daily responsibilities of a classroom teacher and deal with the whole child the academic the social the emotional and the physical well-being of all their students every day they make a difference in the lives of children and help to change the future you're they are dedicated caring and they're always professional so at this time Dr Hamilton and I will be um presenting them with plaques from the Board of Education at this time we'd like to acknowledge the Monroe Township Middle School teacher of the year
004Michelle Murphy [Applause] congratulations the oak tree oak tree educator of the Year M Marie mcnut [Music] [Applause] mil Lake Brook [Applause] Krueger educator of the year for Woodland School Peggy Margaret exin [Music] [Applause] [Music] Barkley Barkley Brook alga deg graia [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Monroe Township High School Matthew D [Applause] philippus and last but not least Brookside blue kapati [Applause] congratulations to all of our nominees re okay at this time we will go to reports from our student board members good evening ladies and gentlemen several events took place this month May 3rd there was an informative blood drive assembly May 5th the SATs took place at mono Township High School junior prom is tomorrow May 11th at Crown Plaza from May 7th to 16th there's AP testing from May 15th to 16th the freshmen will be
005taking their bio exit exam from May 28th to June 1st there is no school okay and just to continue um the PTO scholarship dinner was held uh May 2nd at the forest gate Country Club um and Senior activities are beginning um June 5th uh will be the senior picnic and obviously the upcoming the senior um prom will be uh June 8th um and to follow with that Project Graduation um the letters were also mailed out to the homes of seniors um and uh just a note for the school uh monor Township High School is continuing to host visitors uh such as um individuals from West Morris who were interested in uh the iPad initiative and the AVID program and uh Princeton Symphony will be here on Saturday uh to hold a concert at 7 o'cl
006uh that concludes our report thank you okay thank you this time we will go to number seven on the agenda public forign anyone from the public wishing to speak to the agenda please come up to the microphone and state your name and address for the record Robert roach 18 mfield Boulevard um these are the board action items me make sure get my page uh this page 39 number a says it is recommended the I have three questions so maybe I'll just ask the questions and you guys can respond it's uh it's recommended that the board approve the attached list of requests for staff developments there's no attached list and I see that many many times and I just wonder whether why there's never an attached list but I would like to know uh who is
007receiving him the uh staff professional development how much each individual is receiving what's the purpose of them um then on the next page 40 says it is recommended the board approve the sidebar agreement between Monroe Township Board of Education and Monroe Township Education Association would like to know what that's all about and M on that same page talks about the after school program my question is is the uh are the employees paying for that or is that a uh a benefit that they receive after the after school program Mr roach what's what's your question on that what number what number is that for that is M I just want um on page 40 the last item actually oh okay uh my question is do the employees pay for that or is that a a benefit
008that's provided to them that will be when it begins operation in September that program will be paid for by the employees okay it will be a self- sustaining program um regarding your Prof your question on professional development there is a list that is available uh for professional development that is part of what happens every month it covers everyone in the entire District um you can certainly oper that that list um if you if you'd like access to that it is a public document and you have to go through the oer process yes and the sidebar agreement speaks specifically to an agreement that was reached with the association after negotiations relative to instructional support facilitators and that came about as a result of the acquisition of the E4 NJ Grant where teachers were asked to provide
009additional training to their colleagues and the association negotiated with the board for uh uh stien associated with those duties and responsibilities above their normal workday thank you you're welcome is there anyone else from the public Anthony preso way to question way has there been any progress in the request for the iPads for the middle school they're not in the resource rooms now and uh while I was here today I showed a couple of board members is how well my son who's nine who's autistic his tone with his fingers has has improved greatly with using the iPad if some of these kids don't have the iPad in the resource room in the middle school when they get to high school they're going to be lagging behind so I was hoping that maybe we could get a
010couple of iPads in a resource room in the Middle School um there has been progress Mr pra um I'd like to uh call Miss Rella at a special services and she could give you an update of um where we are um I don't she'll Define what we mean by resource room and and special needs and where the the placements have been good evening okay don't go away come on I'm GNA explain a little bit to you okay right now as you said we were utilizing the iPads as an augmentive device throughout the district and now we've expanded that into the middle school our self-contained classroom is utilizing that as a tool for the classroom the teachers were trained Paris were trained parents were offered training and the actual app full Tech person came in and
011worked with the classroom so we're starting there now when you speak about a resource room that's a small group of children that are brought into the classroom and they change different teachers and they change classes so their knowledge of the iPad would be like any other child that goes to the high school they will learn it when they get there we have so much offered at the high school with training and other students that would work with it so right now we're starting in the midd mid School in the self-contained classroom and hope to work with other groups at this time these special kids are going to be targeted to learn before they get into High School how to use an iPad well the group that I'm speaking about right now in the Middle School
012does they do have the iPads within the classroom are they needs kids yes they are okay the selfcontained classroom thank you you're welcome is there anyone else from the public okay seeing no one we will go to the superintendent's report Dr Hamilton thank you um again I'd like to just commend our teachers who were honored this evening and to all the teachers during Teachers Appreciation Week for their exceptional dedication to our district and also National Nurses Day for I want to acknowledge the our nurses for their work in our district and with our students as well uh the superintendent's report inclosed you will find the enrollment report we actually have a decline of three students um for the first time since I can remember um you also have the enrollment for outof district placement as
013well as those students who are currently on homebound instruction for various reasons also including your report are the two um required fire drill and lockdown drills at each school and moving on to the Personnel report Madame board president and members of the Board of Education it is recommended by the superintendent that Personnel items a through y be approved by roll call vote second Mr cherella Miss antelis are there any comments or questions for the superintendent okay seeing none we'll have a roll call Mr Gorski Miss anelis yes and recuse myself on item s like Sam so noted Mr cherella yes Mrs Fon yes Mr calman yes to all recuse on Q so noted Mr Klein yes Mr liry yes Mr Masters yes Mr tesler yes Mrs kapano yes madame board president Personnel items a through
014y passes thankk you thank you uh Madam board president members of the Board of Education moving on to board uh action is there any reason we skip Z why no there did there isn't Madame board president members of the Board of Education it is recommended by the superintendent that Personnel action item Z be approved by roll call vote as well so moved second miss santalis Mr Chella any questions or comments then we will have a roll call Miss anelis yes Mr cherella yes Mrs Fon yes see Mr calman yes Mr Klein yes Mr Larry uh well my well-known uh concern about HIV I say Yes except for item J Mi Mr we're we're doing number Z just Z on the um board Z because he missed z Oh I stand corrected thank you okay is
015that a affirmative yes it's affirmative thank you Mr Masters yes tesler yes M poano yes madame board president item Z passes under Personnel items thank you and under board action items Madam board president members of the Board of Education it is recommended by the superintendent that board action items a through o be approved by roll call vote second Mr Chella Miss antelis are there any comments or questions Mr Klein couple um first first of all on D the list of suspensions um again we have a major problem with the students in the high school um before the school year I met with uh Rob and the assistant principles with my suggestion of uh more appropriate penalties for the violations and to me it looks like it's not not working uh I'm not going to go
016into everything here I found it very very disturbing but one of the most disturbing things was uh one student at the high school in the 11th grade cut H his physic physics three times honors now we got one of our top kids I would think we really shouldn't be addressing student matters in public oh so now words you can't discuss this at all okay will not say anything about this I just I'm very disturbed about the amount of violations and they're getting harsher now second thing is on Jay it is recommended that the members of the Monroe Township Board of Education approved challenge day a california-based nonprofit organization to provide services people and materials for three days of student workshops focused on on student harassment bullying respect for a total of $9,600 plus reimbursement for
017airfare hotel transportation and miscellaneous made to the vendor if this is on bullying we have the administrative assistant whose job it is one of our jobs was to train anti-bullying why are we bringing in a company from California to do what one of our staff members is being paid to do uh Mr Goodall you want to explain what challenge day is is he there yes oh sorry hiding in the corner um we did uh some research uh Miss Diane Peterson guidance counsel did some research on outside programs um to make connections with kids to work with identified kids uh we went and we visited a couple of schools who run CH uh challenge day we worked with the administration from those schools and of the uh programs that we saw we thought were most appropriate
018for Monroe challenge day stood out and how they make connections directly with kids so we felt it was appropriate to allocate and uh you know ask for the funding to run this program okay um my feeling is it's a duplicate of what should be done and I cannot seeing laying out what may amount to be upwards of $66,000 for this when we are paying somebody here that is responsible for training I respect what Mr Goodall said but when it comes to money and especially for this where we're paying somebody in the staff on the staff to do this I am totally against it and I will vote against it and I suggest other members do the same that is it for me thank you Mr Good wait Mr good oh wa Master no so these
019are student workshops not teacher workshops it's a um it's a student driven Workshop it's collabor we ask some teachers to get some training from the organization to work with them um it's a it's a young people's workshop and with all due respect to all the administrative team who work with the kids it's really a it's a real student- centered Workshop that they really make connections with the kids if you saw the actual program you'll know exactly uh what I mean um the staff who runs it is significantly significantly younger than I am and they really make the connections with the kids and if you s saw the program and the activities that they run you would understand that um you know this type of outside uh organization is really appropriate for what we're trying to
020accomplish here at the high school do we have a date is there a date um we're tentatively targeting November uh to do this we try to work within the calendar calendar our activities calendar is not complete um but the last conversation we had we're targeting November C can we observe it if the board wanted to absolutely if you want to participate I can arrange that too I want to participate Mr L you could be in my group oh boy he just going to have to remind me around October it it really is you know it's not something that I would approve and uh unless I thought it was really worthwhile for the kids and it's it really is something that um is maybe beyond our expertise or or you know me being the principal it
021comes different from an outside organization I think this is perfect for for what we want to do in Target bullying bullying and RS thank you okay anyone else uh Miss Fon um while I appreciate and respect Mr Klein's concerns I think um I I had three children go to the high school with Mr Goodall as the principal and children kids will be kids and issues will happen and I never once felt um my kids are unsafe or um unprotected under Mr Goodall and the administration and staff I I would like to know a little bit of more I would like to know a little more about it I don't want to vote Yes or no or um decline it without getting a little inform information can we table it and get some more information till
022the next meeting or does it need to be approved tonight because I don't want to risk him losing this if information is an issue um Mr Goodall is there a challenge with it needing to be approved tonight any timelines we need to be aware of stay here um only that um because they do it nationwide and there is a definite timeline that in order to secure their services and we have it kind of pinpointed for November and by delaying it it would only you know put at risk having to be able to do the program in November and then move it to a different timeline and it's Madison Square Garden here we do so many things every day it's hard to pinpoint and get these organizations to come in what's you know an appropriate time
023for us so that would be the only concern that we would lose that timeline and that window for them to come I'm okay with that I just I don't knowing Mr Goodall I don't think he's spending some frivolous that's not going to be um uh necessary for the children so that that's fine with me thank you I and a program like that to me is something you need to do at the beginning of the year and not something that you should hold off anything that could help bullying um you know I'd like to see done earlier in the year we do things consistently throughout um but a program like that and the amount of money you're spending on it I think you'd get the real benefit if you had it earlier in the year and
024waiting to try to fit it in you know right before exams or near the Vaca the spring vacation things like that so just consider that when you make a decision Mr Goodall is there any information that can be sent home home to the board members so that they know what they will be voting on today I most certainly can prepare something to have it sent out to you okay thank you uh miss anelis Mr Goodall how didd you hear about the program uh it was brought through uh my attention uh through Mrs Peterson Guan counselor and we actually there was about 15 of us went and participated at Jackson Memorial High School with their program um they invited us Challen the challenge day people invited us to be a part not only just of you
025it to be a part of it so and having taught there for 10 years it was unique for me to go back see some old uh colleagues but also work with kids that you know I was pretty familiar with so um you know I totally endorse the program it's great for our kids and I know it is a little bit costly um but I think it's really worthwhile if we're looking at you know uh having kids act the right way and um you know work together and try to get this done for them and I really see it as an appropriate program so I really endorse it any other question yeah just just for clarification in the board packet with the supplemental documents uh the contract and description of of challenge day was included in
026the packet so you you already had that information and that's pretty much what I would provide you I I mean I'll try to get some additional uh literature on it though Miss anelis just have a comment just a comment um I just saw in the um news again today that another young lady committed suicide after being bullied at another school I think this is a really important program for our students and considering that at the last board meeting this board voted to allow an outside group to make about $150,000 a year off of our students and parents um I think that this is uh a valuable program for our students Mr cherella yeah I just want to just reiterate what Dr Hamilton said because we did get some information home um in our board packet
027so the the information was there that's what I read so that I'll be making my decision based upon that I just don't I don't want the the you know I don't want the the public to think that we're voting on something here that hasn't been reviewed I mean that we we did receive some information um regarding this program so and then your recommendation in my mind is enough on top of what we received for me to make a a decision it really is a structured venue to bring kids who are having trouble with each other uh together and uh again I invite you to come and even participate Mr L I have you signed up um I'll be there it's it's it really is a great venue to get kids together who have some differences
028and U you know I would I wouldn't stand here and tell you that that it's nothing short of what I'm telling you it is Mr Tesla just one quick one one quick comment um Mr goodal if you say it's a good program and to benefit the kids uh I'm in favor of it and uh what money we're investing uh in the program if it saves one child it's money worth well we spent anyone else okay thank you thank you are there any more questions for the excuse me any more questions okay then we'll have a roll call Mr wski Miss anelis yes Mr Chella yes Mr Fon yes Mr calman yes Mr Klein yes on everything no on D is in Dog and J D and J so not D and J D is and
029dog Mr lirry I go yes except for item J which is no and it's my well stated opinion about hip I consider it a bloody Abomination so noted Mr Masters yes Mr tesler yes Mrs kapano yes Madam board president board action items a through o passes okay thank you that concludes the superintendent's report and we will go on to the business administrator's report Mr Gorski Madame board president and members of the Monroe Township Board of Education it is recommended that board action items a through H be approved by consent roll call Mr tiella Miss anelis are there any comments or questions for Mr Gorski I just I had a question on the code of ethics do we have to sign a copy and give it to you yes because I know it was in our
030packet yes so we have to give you a hard copy sign yes ma'am okay anyone else okay seeing no one we will have a roll call Miss antelis yes Mr cherella yes Mrs Fon yes Mr calman yes Mr Klein yes Mr Larry yes Mr Masters yes Mr tesler yes M poo yes madame board president board action items a through H passes okay thank you does that conclude your report yes ma'am okay at this time we will go to number 10 the board's president's report and mine is very short because I think anything I need to say tonight can be accomplished through the committee reports but I just want to uh commend the Monroe Township middle school for participating in a food drive where they donated 2500 lbs of food to the middle sex County food
031organization and Outreach distribution services and there was only five schools in the whole middle sex County that donated more than um or middle school so I'd like to commend the staff and the students for that accomplishment and at this time we will go to committee reports is there anyone who has a Mr ly I have three resolutions here that reflect the work of the finance committee U the first is that the it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the appointment of wance Goldman and spit professional association the firm as the general counsel for the appointment and approval of professional legal services between the board and the firm for an annual retainer of $54,000 for up to 30 hours and I need I need new glasses pardon me I'm sorry about that uh and
032let me just I'll tell you what let's just go down to the bottom line it is resolved that the board president and the business administrator and board secretary as the attesting Witnesses are hereby authorized to sign the agreement I so that's a motion by Mr Larry which Mr Gorski will I incorporate the what's in this document because my eyesight is going on meor Mr Gorski will read it again but it's motion by Mr ly and second by miss selis any comments questions okay Mr Gorski yes ma'am do I have a roll call yes it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the appointment of wance Goldman and Spitzer PA firm as general counsel and approve the agreement for professional legal services between the board and the firm for the period July 1st 2012 through
033June 30 2013 the board will pay the firm an annual retainer of $54,000 for up to 30 hours of professional legal services each month the board will pay the firm an hourly rate of $175 for shareholders $165 for associates and councel and $95 for paralegals for matters not covered by the retainer the board will also reimburse The Firm for such costs as computer research UPS overnight messenger longdistance telephone calls fa simile photocopy and the like be it further resolved that the notice of the award of the above described contract for Legal Services shall be provided as required by njsa 18a colon 18a 5a1 be it further resolved that this resolution and agreement shall be maintained on file and available for public inspection in the board's office be further resolve that the board president and the
034business administrator board secretary is attest testing Witnesses are hereby authorized to sign the agreement Miss anelis yes Mr Braverman I beg your pardon he's absent Mr Chella yes Mrs Fon yes Mr calman yes Mr Klein yes Mr liry yes Mr Masters yes Mr Tesla yes Mrs K Pano yes Madam board president motion passes and if I may I would just like to thank Mary Smith and um Attorneys at will L for all their guidance throughout the year thank you thank you for your confidence Mr Larry do you have another I have two more um and again my I have some uh medication that plus my my site is right now shot let Mr Gorski please carry forward Okay resolution of the Board of Education of the township of Monroe authorizing the acquisition of instructional Technologic
035technology equipment playground equipment and office equipment and the financing thereof whereas njsa 18a colon 18a hyphen 42 authorizes the Board of Education of the township of Monroe the board to enter into a contract exceeding the fiscal year for the leasing of equipment of every nature and kind and whereas the board has a need to acquire instructional technology equipment the playground equipment and the office office equipment as described in schedule a attach here to collectively the equipment for school purposes and whereas the board desires to acquire the equipment through State contract and whereas the board desires to obtain financing for the equipment of the acquisition of the equipment through competitive bidding now therefore be it resolved by the board as follows section one the board hereby authorizes the superintendent board secretary and the board's Bond Council
036to proceed to draft documents and conduct such other activities as are necess NE AR to accomplish a the acquisition of the equipment through State contract B the receipt of bids for the financing of the acquisition of the equipment section two the board hereby directs the board secretary to process the necessary purchase orders to acquire the equipment in advance of the receipt of the bids for financing the acquisition of the equipment such purchase orders shall be expressly subject to the condition that the board receives and accepts one or more bids for the financing of such equipment the board I'm sorry the award for the finan ing of the equipment shall be an incumbrance against the 2012 2013 budget the board president and the board secretary are hereby authorized and directed to determine all matters in conjunction
037with the acquisition and financing of the equipment not determined by this or subsequent resolution of the board as permitted by law section four a copy of this resolution shall be placed on file with the secretary of the board section five the making and submission of the the making of and submission to the county superintendent of the appli application as required by njac 6A colon 26y 10.1 D is hereby authorized and approved and the board's Bond councel along with other Representatives the board are hereby authorized and approved to prepare and submit such application and to represent the board in matters pertaining thet section six the board hereby appoints the law firm of mcarter English LLP to provide specialized Legal Services necessary in conjunction with the financing of the equipment the secretary of the board is here
038by authorized to cause to cause to be permitted any notice required by njsa 18a colon 18a hyphen 5a1 in conjunction with such appointment this resolution shall take effect immediately is there a motion make and second by Mr L any comments or questions Mr Chella yes is this just a general policy on purchasing equipment or is are we looking to purchase equipment is there a specific equipment that we're purchasing this resolution covers um a couple items number one the authorization to issue purchase orders for such equipment and that was um technological instruction related monitors and also playground equipment and also um copy machine and also authorizes the the bid the Board of Education to solicit bids for the financing of that lease purchase oh okay thank you anyone else roll call Mr borski M antelis yes
039Mr Chella yes Mrs fron yes Mr calman yes Mr Klein yes Mr liry yes Mr Masters yes Mr tesler yes Mrs kapano Madam board president motion passes and I believe Mr Larry you have you have the third one and again I'll refer to uh Mr Gorski because my vision is shot okay it is recommended that members of the Monroe Township Board of Education authorize and approve a with withdrawal from the capital reserve account in the amount of 135,000 to fund 12 Construction Services account 12 hyphen 0000 hyphen 400 hyphen 450 for capital projects throughout the districts projects to be considered are Roofing at Monro Township Middle School HVAC at appleg guard school and Brookside school esalt at Barkley Brook School mono Township middle school and appleg Guard School along with engineering fees so move second
040second Mr ly again if there any comments or questions then we will have another roll call Miss antelis yes Mr Chella yes Mrs frony yes Mr calman yes Mr Klein yes Mr lary yes Mr Masters yes Mr tesler yes Mrs kapano Madame board president motion passes Mr ly are you still on your finance committee report no that is that concludes and uh please pass this are there any other reports Mr tesler thank you last week we had a Personnel committee the following topics were discussed uh topic number one review of the assistant superintendent contract and cost analysis the committee reviewed the contract for Jeff Gorman for the upcoming school year 2012 and 2013 um and the cost analysis for that the committee authorized a submission of the contract and a corresponding 2% raise to the
041county office for approve approval and we'll be voting on that next month um we interviewed uh we conducted interviews for the director/ headteacher for the employee Early Child Care Center we interviewed three candidates um we also discussed the MTA sidebar agreement which was already approved earlier tonight um other Staffing um consideration for the employee Early Child uh Care Center the committee discussed a request from the director of facilities to hire a part-time custodian for the purpose of attending to the care of the maintenance of the mil Lake Annex the cost will be absorbed uh in the Monroe Township Child Care Academy budget uh the committee gave consent to proceed with the position uh Mr Gorski presented The Proposal submitted by the central office support staff Association and the administration's counter proposal and the committee authorized
042him to present the counter offer on the behalf of the Board of Education uh also Dr Hamilton reintroduced the request from the director of it for a change in the secretary position to include secretary secretary stuten information system data manager to comply with the new state new state regulations this item was discussed at the March 20th meeting and was just reintroduced for consent by the committee thank you hey thank you Mr kman um we [Music] have um the curriculum meeting actually um was held yesterday it was a rather long one um so what I'd like to do is uh turn it over to Jeff Gorman uh as some of you may remember from the last board meeting we asked to get an update on the iPad program in totality so Jeff is going to talk
043to uh many different aspects of the uh iPad program so you're up Jeff okay good evening everybody um the full presentation will be aable on our website tomorrow this is a much much condensed version uh for the sake of um of this forum so I'll just uh focus in on some highlights and again the depth to the discussions that we had in the curriculum committee are much more substantial than the overview that I'm going to give you tonight um this is our six-month report on our iPad learning tool infusion um initiative at the high school it's comprised of SE seven major categories Vision communication curriculum assessment and Reporting professional development infrastructure and financial planning um each one has a set of action steps that we have um been following since the implementation this is our
044phase one implementation there's a phase two that goes from six months out so looking on the vision Dr Hamilton just as a recap gave an overview of why we set out on this journey to uh create a onetoone technology learning environment for our students we we gave an overview of the district Mission our district beliefs and really emphasized why because the why is the important piece it's not the how and the what so a lot of times we start with the what and the how and that's the iPads and how we're doing it but it's really why are we doing our work so that's really important on establishing that piece we also um introduced some dialogue that's been happening with Mr Goodall and his staff about second year observable um indicators for both teachers and
045students um just to give you one of the slides from a highlight from that part of the presentation uh we gave a list of why the iPad is aligned to the district Mission and beliefs and why is it a good fit um so I'll leave it up there just for viewing instead of reading to you and again everything will be posted um on our website after the meeting tonight as we moved on to communication communication is a second key component to the action plan communication um the recap of that that presentation came from our numerous press releases our website our champions of Education other Outreach um via um radio interviews and um and Outreach to communities we've uh presented at at least two Senior Communities um with the iPad on weekends and students have um
046LED those uh programs on our Outreach also we uh focused in on the abundance of educational institutions that reached out to us regarding the iPads um I highlighted that an avid School in Michigan is starting a onet toone iPad initiative in September and they want to know how we are handling or what kind of leadership we could give them um regarding the binders on whether to go electronic because as you know Avid is a college readiness system so the overwhelming support from the from Avid Central was yes we have to move to that environment because that's the environment that our kids are going to enter when they get to a college um atmosphere or work Place Readiness atmosphere and again just a highlighted slide that includes it press releases web pages our TV channel technology
047forums and throughout the tri-state area as we move on to curriculum we had a couple of uh different presentations we had a teacher and a student present um and the presentation was very impressive it was it was based off of a physics a science class and and um and the student did a really neat demonstration on an iMovie that she created about their journey through physics in the High School uh we talked about how we're going to monitor curriculum writing process with the infusion of the iPad next year uh one of our science teachers and the science team along with the content supervisors have created a monitoring tool so curriculum will be aligned with iPad strategies and so there's a connection that our curriculum leads right to the the most effective instruction for our kids
048we also had a nice conversation about digital textbooks and so last when we started this uh implementation digital textbooks were on the horizon but they weren't where they are now so that's a developing conversation that we had about what comes next for our students next year in the world of um digital um interactive textbooks told you about the student teacher presentation we capped off with um some really cool things that are going to happen next year in Monro um establishing a presence in our University so we have an application process to get on that in that um in that domain so um we could start authoring our content and and having um people access it from uh that throughout the world we also uh talked about an app development course next year and put on
049the table that we have to have discussions regarding policy and with the board about um what if a student or a teacher creates a million dollar app or something in the future you know and whose responsibility and who benefits from those um from that creation as we moved on to assessment and Reporting we um we just administered a progress check with our students and our teachers so we gave an initial survey when we implemented the iPads in October and now 6 months later we gave a follow-up progress check and we started to really analyze preliminarily some of the data and we came to some really um interesting conclusions both positive and for areas that we need to grow upon uh we looked at the students technology skills um there was a report that 23% of
050the kids had iPads before we gave them to them but yet they didn't use it in an educational Variety in any way shape or form and so 6 months later um all of our kids those those statistics were very impressive and they will serve as further Baseline data so in 6 months or a year from now um we'll be able to look at it and and monitor that progress we also there was a lot of comments um and a lot of testimonials on the surveys that we put out based on assignments and projects that students learned from most in the first six months with the iPad and then we broke down content specific to language arts science engineering mathematics history World Language and electives and then we did a little comparison between our student and
051teacher survey so I'll show you two uh pretty interesting slides on the student survey piece for students who report their teachers are using the iPad overall are you satisfied with the iPad as an educational tool and overall um students were either satisfied or very satisfied that's combined in a Liker scale modality and um that decline from 9th to 12th is an interesting piece and we discussed that a little bit about what could have possibly caused that uh one of the things that we got back from some of the comments is that the 12th graders say hey where have these been my whole career now you giving them to me as 12th graders um we also talked about how in the future we're looking to track that Trend and if we're setting kids up for College
052and Career Readiness we we are you know I'm very curious to see if that Trend will move we talked about the correlation possibly to um our Freshman Academy and our careeres um at the high school and then we correlated this data and this data talks about teachers and students from the teacher Serv and so is there a correlation and so this type of data is giving us some rich dialogue to um really look at monitoring the process in year two and um and providing the correct professional development for teachers and the right learning environment for students and again we we presented a lot more data last night as we moved on to professional development one of the things I talk talked about is that in the beginning when we gave out the iPads we were
053in a reactive state right September came we switched platforms we started giving out um professional development for teachers reactively because that's what happened we were making a big move in school culture and the way we do business so we had to provide some support for that ideally if we could go back um a year in time and do it all over again we would have given more lead time for the professional development but that wasn't our reality at that point so since September we've done an influx of um professional development we've created a group of Vanguard teachers and students that have been trained they've started to TurnKey that professional development to their peers through different courses through a help desk that's located outside that's open all day for both students and teachers so it's teachers
054teaching teachers students teaching students and um we're trying to really Comm establish that environment where people learn best because one of the things that we did find talked about last night is that people come along at different rates and we have to be appropriately responsive to those rates so the the training you know started through those first couple of months then we got some um responses awesome sub responses from both teachers and students and um and so next year's professional development will be more proactive and I'll show you um a little bit about what I mean um again we had a teacher presentation on her presentation out to teachers and that was pretty impressive that was a um a three minute ey movie made on an IAD about her interaction with her adult Learners in
055the school so um next year we have the advantage of planning early so next year we're already looking at a book study in the high school based on iPads in the 21st century classroom we're also looking at our year-long professional development program so teachers will be able to sign up now for next year's year-long professional development so this will be a continuous flow for them and'll be pre-planned so they'll have a goal in mind also we'll continue our district run manyi courses based on different topics and needs based off the assessment that we have and the feedback that we're getting we banked nine additional professional development days that we had purchased originally for next year the J teacher evaluation tool has a technology component that we're um that the high school staff has um started
056to engage their staff members and so we're making connections with the iPads practice instruction curriculum and assessment and then teachers um in collaboration with their administrators develop a professional growth plan each year and then this will also include parts of the technology INF Fusion initiative um one thing I want to clarify and I say it regularly this was not not a technology initiative as much as it was a learning initiative and that's a very important point to stress um we are out for to get kids to higher levels of thinking and that's why we're doing it all right as we moved on to the infrastructure Mr Washington talked about all the really cool things that have been happening since September we have over 200 wikis spaces created by teachers and students it's very impressive considering
057um pre six months is about a handful so that was very impressive we're ready to go forward with podcasts podcasts on our server will allow teachers and students to make videos and record what they're doing so if I was doing a workshop right now you could um you know tape me and we could play it back um very easily for both students and teachers they could access it at any time and it becomes an incredible um asset um and and we're pulling together that um Learning Community we talked about the iCloud and the lockers vendor support are starting to react very much to us so um so the iPads are hot you know they are all over the nation educationally and so vendors are now um really starting to cater to the educational needs of
058schools uh we talked about the future of projecting through Apple TVs Apple TV is just so you know is a little box go sits on top of the projector and allows me to take my iPad wirelessly project both audio and video wise we actually demonstrated it last night and um through just a couple couple of Taps on on the iPad we were up and running and that was an impressive presentation and then we talked about the good and the bad we have to collect the iPads this year to you know reboot them and um and get them ready for next year and so the good news is that uh the teachers and the students don't want to give them up because they need them for final exams the bad news it's not a lot of
059time to do it so we're in the middle of working with the High School Mr good and Mr Washington and the staff to uh come up with the best collection method so we let the kids using it and that's pretty um that's a pretty positive piece that we are now getting feedback that don't take these away from it we're pretty dependent on this for our learning um process all right and then that's just an example of our Wiki server almost done the last um piece is we talked on finances we talked about discussions about repairs repairs are happening they're a little bit higher than we anticipated and we talked about what the rumors are and what the facts are and we talked about discipline and consequences and reimbursement and the protection plan and why these
060are happening and we're going to start talking about possible future Sol um Solutions here's the big slide that we talked about um we talked about the fact that iPads do break the screens do Break um as of April 26 we sent that 259 iPads for repair we have 59 more to be repaired we budgeted at about 78,000 based on what we collected from parents this year however was a little bit challenging because what we didn't anticipate is that if somebody breaks their iPad we have to give them a loner so for this year only we purchased a 100 looners if we didn't purchase those 100 looners we would have been within the kitty that we had established for repairs this year um so we are currently a little bit over over um and we're using
061and we're generating those um funds based on the repair and maintenance the reason we put this out is what's next and as this initiative evolves this was not a six-month initiative this was a long-term initiative that the board spoke at length about and so these are the conversations that we are now going to put out there as next steps what happens as digital textbooks continue to explode on the market market and publishing companies redefine their trade um now it's a very hot topic I've been meeting with with a person that is connected to CEOs of Pearson McDougall um and all blenco and all the top Publishers and they are redefining the piece one of the misses that has happened is that the local sales are not connecting to the tire Vision so it hasn't trickled
062down on what digital interactive textbooks look like in the future so that was a really neat conversation because I felt like we had insight to what is really happening with interactive digital textbooks and how they're coming they've also talked about compressing the size of the digital textbook so that is happening on a regular basis and now we sort of have an inside in in possibly piloting different textbooks we're looking at an algebra one series for all on the Common Core next year and one of the things we discussed um last night which is pretty neat also so those books they update regularly when you get a regular textbook and you adopt as a school district it's yours for five or more years usually while the common core and these digital textbooks get regularly updated and
063you get an email it says um okay delete your current version reload from the cloud and you're up and running so you get the most current interactive digital content and what's pretty neat about these books is that they do um they interact with you so that's that's sort of the future and how that works out we're not really sure yet because like I said we're in our infancy planning and stages we also want to have conversations about finances what are we going to do about the repairs what comes next and how are we going to sustain the initiative and possibly expand the initiative as we heard some interest already tonight in you know where do we go from here for as a school district Kaboom how's that Mr that was good it was a little
064over 20 minutes but you're all right it's all right it was like a two and a half hour thing we went through yesterday that was right um one a couple couple things I just want to mention um please keep in mind the board is very sensitive to the nature of this particular initiative while it it brings an incredible vast platform to do a whole lot of things there's the future and then there's what is now and what what we can manage to um one of the things that was talked about a little bit was how are we going to self-fund this and how are we going to move this forward um I was I didn't bring it up last night but I'm just sitting here realizing that we're almost at the end of the school
065year and one of the things that we were just kicking around in spit bowling was the idea of potentially offering uh students especially seniors to purchase their iPads to to keep the the influx of new ones coming in so if we decide that we even want to consider that I think we have to send a survey out to see if there's a market for it because we're running out of time and seniors are I think they pretty much have already checked out mentally anyway um so at least we have to find out if there would be a market for for them to want to purchase their iPads and we may have to have if it's going to be a lot we don't have another board meeting until the end of June right we have we
066have a date of June 5th June 5th we have to approve it tonight all right so I was just concerned that we wouldn't be having another board meeting to make any kind of decisions on anything until later so we might need to be a little aggressive about finding out if if we're going to entertain this even at all that we need to kind of move this along uh that's it I'm done do you have a question for no I I think we could also convene a special meeting if it's required you know to meet uh L's requirements for timing it's you know you would convene it and give public notice and we go from there we may also want to consider because it's a finan combining the curriculum and finance together so that we get
067everybody at the same time we don't have to have double meetings you know this well think if you had both committees together that would consist of a quarum and I don't we all all the committee members don't have to show up and some of them are on both so we can figure it out yeah I we could any other Mr Mr giella I saved mine for last because I thought I would be long um I just want to know if I could turn that over to you now Dr bman do you have a power point for my committee Court when I got back you know lately I've been creating so many PowerPoints I might just have one if I my we had a thank you anyway we had a uh buildings grounds and transportation meeting
068on May 7th and we we discussed a few things we discussed an apple the Applegarth update um the logos in the uh in our gymnasiums we tabled that for further discussion um just just because of the cost associated with that and and doing those all at once would be uh might be costly and that we looked at maybe doing those as we as we come up for floor refinishing in the in the various schools um one of the things that we we discussed was the lead testing currently going on uh at Applegarth school and I just want to quickly read a letter that the committee received from Dr Lynch uh on the day written on the same day that we had our meeting and just say a just a quick note to bring you up
069to speed on the lead and the soil sampling which took place at Applegarth today I met with Lewis Consulting Group on site today and reviewed bu the building layout roof Contours and soil asphalt areas of Apple of the Applegarth building with respect to the 1930s weighing in the cppa I've requested that they prepare to collect two rounds of sampling one prior to the cppa painting and the second round following uh based upon the above Lewis collected samples from well let me just let me just go back they collected the samples but they collected the samples from beneath the um the newly laid um The Mulch level uh so when I say when I say these and you think 0 to 6 in you'll think that's the mulch but it was Beneath The Mulch that they
070started where they measured So based on the above Lewis collected soil samples 0 to 6 in depth and a 6 to 12 in depths in the drip line areas north and south of entrance entranceway one in the front of the building as well as the grassy triangle area separating uh the entry driveway from the sidewalk where water from the roof would accumulate we also collected samples from the grassy area on the south side of the building which would not be accepted or expected to receive roof run off from the Copa uh containing roof I ensured that all the mulch Etc was removed so as not to interfere with sampling results they hand delivered the samples to my lab today for expedited analysis and I expect to receive this receive the results by the end of
071the week and I'll be in touch as as the the results become available we haven't received those yet obviously because today is only Wednesday but as we as God bless you as we get those then we'll uh you know we'll be sure to communicate that to the public and to the other board members um also with regards to Applegarth before I I have I also have three resolutions so before but before I read these in read the Motions in um I just want I just want to talk about the first one which is with regards to uh just filling out the paperwork in order to so that we can move move the trailers from Applegarth to Oak Tree if the need ever arose where where we might need to move those trailers so right now
072the plan is to open appar and to use the trailer that's there for the eight classroom trailer for uh office space am I am I correct yes sir um but should the need arise for whatever reason and you know either in the future sometime at some point that we will have the ability to do that and we have already spent the money on the filing fees uh and the permits to get those things done I believe it was about $6,500 uh the only thing that needs to be done is the is the paperwork end of it so that we can get the approval once we have that approval it gives us the ability to move the the uh the trailer should should the need arise for whatever reason so I just want to be sure
073that I'm you know that I'm explaining it's not because of Any findings it's not because of the the uh the the the the lead uh letter that I just read in or any of the other things it's it really is just being prudent and having insurance so that should the need arise that we have the ability to that because the moving the trailer and going through the approval process is is very lengthy and and uh and would cost us more money again so well we'll actually be saving if we just do the paperwork at this point so that is my first resolution which I'll read in now it is recommended that members of the Board of Education approve the submission of the relocation of an eight of the of A8 classroom 9,75 ft trailer SP
074number 3 3 6-12-12 from appor school to O Oak Tree Elementary School as temporary space to the state of New Jersey Department of Education Office of the school facilities for review as an other Capital project in which the Boe is not seeking State funding furthermore the Board of Education authorized the amendment of The District's long range facility plan so that's a motion I need a second second by Mr Masters are there any comments or questions for Mr cherella seeing none we'll have a roll call Miss anelis yes Mr cherella yes Mr Fon abstain so noted Mr calman yes Mr K yes Mr liry yes Mr Masters yes Mr tesler yes Mrs Co P Madam board president motion passes thank you Mr yes the next thing that we discussed is uh was is the naming of
075the ECCC is that is that enough The Early Childhood early care childhood care employ yes employee the employ I'm sorry not not the early oh my gosh the employee Child Care Center Center yeah okay we have a lot of C's in there but anyway we've made it we've made it easier by naming it and throwing an m in there so um I I'm going to uh read that resolution and and uh the board obviously can decide not to name it this but this is what the committee came up with it is a recommend it is recommended that the Monro Township Board of Education approv the following name for the previously approved Child Care Center for Monroe Township School District employees I'm sorry you have to approve the other one first the center hasn't been approved
076yet oh the fees the uh okay I'm sorry I I got to start over again I going to start over again jokes this oh jokes too no this one is uh for approval of the uh child care center and the fee structure so I'll read that first and then we're going to name it it is recommended that the Monroe Township Board of Education approved the following fee rate schedule for the for the Monroe employee care I'm sorry for the Monroe employee Child Care Academy that was already named though in that so how could we name it already catch too I think I have to go with the name first all right let's cut start again we start again start from the top again from the very beginning take two can I get some powder okay
077ready well are we starting from the the naming yes I guess we have to do the naming first because the name the name is listed in here it is recommended that the Monro Township Board of Education approve the following name for the previously approved Child Care Center for Monroe Township School District employees which shall commence operations at mil Lake School annex in September 2012 Monroe employee Child Care Academy effective immediately and authorize the superintendent of schools and the business administrator and board secretary to take all necessary and appropriate steps to implement this action of the Board of Education okay that was a motion I need to second second second by Mr tesler any comments or questions for Mr tiella no you already confused me hey then then we will we will um have a roll
078call to name the child care center the Monroe employee Child Care Academy Miss anelis yes Mr Chella yes Mrs Fon yes Mr calman yes Mr Klein yes Mr ly yes Mr Masters yes Mr tesler yes Pano Madam board president motion passed thank you now we just named an academy that now we're going to we're going to make happen we're going to put it some with the fee structure it is recommended that the Monro tan Board of Education approve the following fee rate schedule for the Monroe employee Child Care Academy which shall be effective upon the commencement of the center's operations at Mill Lake School annex in September 2012 and authorize the superintendent of schools and the business administrator board secretary to take all necessary and appropriate steps to implement this action of the Board of
079Education the fee rate schedule infants 6 weeks to 18 months $895 per month toddlers1 18 months to 3 years old $820 per month preschool 3 years old to 6 years old $745 per month a 10% discount will be given for additional children in the family okay there was a motion by Mr cherel I need a second second second by Miss antelis again are there any comments Mr Masters is that a 10% discount for every kid in your case by the time you do that the first one will be free qu that you're right into the map I guess we'll have a roll call M anelis yes Mr cherella yes Mrs Fon yes Mr calman yes Mr Klein yes Mr L yes Mr Masters yes Mr tesler yes Mrs kapano Madame board president motion passes thank
080you I'm thought this are there are there any other committee reports okay seeing none we'll go to Other Board of Education business is there any other business by members of the Board of Education Mr Klein M I would like to make a motion to look into a possible lawsuit against the state of New Jersey and New Jersey Department of Education in the superior court for Monroe Township school districts fair share and state funding I also request that we attempt to identify other school districts that have similarly affected by the underfunding to join our suits and split expenses did I understand that that didn't make sense I understood it yes it's your motion I'll second but you'll second it thank you cheer Ella okay you brought this motion you can start discussion okay um as I
081mentioned at the last meeting and I promised L that I wouldn't use it but I have no choice fig the letter that I got back from the uh supervising uh attorney of the state supreme court uh in my letter I had asked for a hearing for our Administration about uh fixing or rectifying the underfunding to our district and the letter I received back was uh there it's not the policy of the Supreme Court to hear anything unless it's it's going through the appell division first um we are not the only ones that are affected when we're getting $300 per student when it costs $166,000 a year per student when the um the State Constitution Article 4 paragraph 1 I'll paraphrase the state is responsible to provide free public education to a PES 5 through 18
082paragraph two the legislature will set aside the funds to provide a free public education to all residents of New Jersey when we're paying roughly round figure 97% of the cost of running this District that is not a free public school system and I and I feel that not only from them from the letter i got from the uh the attorney but the person I spoke to at the at the Newark education Law Center that brought all these other cases said that we have the right to sue under those uh provisions of the Constitution so I recommend that we look into filing a lawsuit hoping that we can get some other districts that find themselves short changed as we are to help pay for the cost and go along with the lawsuit thank you any other
083comments or questions Miss Anella I want to know what look into means it means to see whether we have to speak with our attorneys to find out whether we have a leg to stand on which uh all the letters I've got we definitely do and uh I think we should do everything in our power to get what's rightfully a and do you know how many other districts right now no that's something that we have to look into that's why the motion is to look into that and I just want to know who would look into that I would seem to think the administration Andor our our Mr lry or our Council I support the measure I I think um we would have um to get a lot of information I think the first place that
084we would probably do is is talk about it in the committee level in the finance committee but the board would have to approve that motion so that we could start looking into that I agree with that any comments or questions okay do you want to we'll make a roll call on Mr before we go I'm sorry I'd like to hear from Dr Hamilton do you do you have any thoughts on this I I think the most prudent thing for us to do is to give Council an opportunity to prepare a position on whether or not they think this is um feasible one two what the projected legal fees would be associated with this and three as best they can a projection on the likelihood of us being successful in that kind of endeavor I think
085that's a perfect road map exactly right exactly right well then can we just change your motion to reflect what Dr Hamilton said rather than our administrators going out and spending time with this it direct him to talk to the attorneys with these three questions well I suggested that we incorporate the council and I think that's part so you want to make an a motion to amend his motion yes to say the three items for Dr Hamilton to speak to the attorney about the three items that he just mentioned would you have and then come back to would you have a problem no but shouldn't um Michael be involved also as the business administrator and board secretary well but right now what we're trying to do is find out one if we can do it two
086what the price of it would be which of course the attorney would have to tell us and the third was likelihood of likelihood of success so really we're talking potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars Michael has to be approve your a motion to have the administration administrative team look into it administrative team talk to the attorneys about look right would you have a problem absolutely our second second so we now will vote on Amy's amended amendment to his motion and then my amendment to her Amendment so you didn't make an amendment well I did because we're writing Michael no well she did she she agreed to put that on her Michael sa time no no he she said she said admin I don't what his role would be that that's what I'm trying to established
087so I'm just well but again we're trying to find out the feasibility of it which an attorney is going to have to tell us we're going to have to find out other school districts and and what the cost is so to me that sounds like something the attorney would handle I I don't know absolutely Michael's role in conjunction well Michael is the is finance he's money bags you have to have Michael involved along with Dr Hamilton well I don't think theary part well I'm just I'm just trying to make sure that our administrators are are doing the role that they're supposed to the attorneys doing their role so I I don't know what Michael's role would be in this very initial part I think once we find out maybe what the cost is you know
088um he's we're going to have to talk to Michael and find out where the money would come from again we are we are doing examples of stove pipe management let's go and do things on an integrated basis where we have the finance and the administrative team working as a cohesive hold and let's go forward with this well the administrative team to me would be Dr Hamilton and Mr Gorski as the as the as superintendent and the business administrator Mike Madam Bo president mski um thanks the um Endeavor on the table the Fe feasibility study um the solicitation of other districts to join in this suit the um assessment and estimate of costs involved and the attorney's opinion and assessment on the likelihood of success and the cost benefit thereof is really a collaborative team effort
089that uh certainly would require the efforts of council Administration and um other school districts throughout the state so thank you Mr gski so you're wait so okay I I just wanted to clarified so that it's not so Broad and and you know gray areas so and that sounds like it's a little bit more uh defined so your amendment to his motion would be to have the administrative team with the council okay and Mr Chella you agreed to that so we would have to vote on the amendment so we'll we'll do a roll call on that okay um the the amendment is for the Monro Township Board of Education to engage in a feasibility study to con uh consider a lawsuit against state of New Jersey to seek our fair share of state aid and the
090New Jersey Department of Education just by stating the state of New Jersy you cover everything all departments okay um and to conduct a feasibility study to solicit the participation of other districts who are also in our our presumed underfunded status to assess the cost of the lawsuit and determine the likelihood of success and and assess the cost benefit of the Endeavor and that's Miss Ellis's Amendment that's correct okay so roll call on that Miss anelis yes Mr cherella yes Mrs fron yes Mr calman yes Mr Klein absolutely Mr Larry yes Mr Masters yes Mr tesler yes madame board president Madame board president motion unanimously passes okay now we have to vote on Mr Klein's motion to I didn't to to I would guess your your motion would be to look into a lawsuit that was
091your original motion yeah well exactly what was just read is exactly what we want to do what you can do is table your motion and and get it off the okay I table my motion okay to the motion that we just voted on okay and now who second who who second his motion I seconded so do you would you feel okay tbling his motion sure okay so do we have to vote on that no no think Amy made the motion and who seconded Amy's motion to cheero can cheer thank you thank you thank you is there any other board of education business um just Mr Kaufman um I noticed on your um the thing you send us I for superintend confidential right that we decided to Shell the um new principal evaluation program um I'm
092assuming that we're going to put a different one in place and we're not shelving the concept we're just shelving that one we are we what we're doing is not participating in the state pilot okay ultimately the other grant that we received the learning forward Grant will culminate into some kind of new evaluation criteria that would be a separate and apart from what the state is doing okay um but it was after looking at the grant the cost of the grant which was only 11,000 I'll say 12,000 because was $11,000 some OD dollars the cost to administer that Grant would exceed that amount for one and number two it would in my mind be duplic at us with the learning forward Grant okay I just wanted to make sure we were going to try and do
093something there too we know it's not just E4 andj we should do something at the administrative level too to see if there's a better way to do evaluations absolutely um curriculum note from my curriculum Jeff um can we just make it book of record that anytime we have a curriculum meeting materials are sent the day before like we did for this one that worked out great this way we get the materials to look at so it's more productive when we get to the meeting I know you're hating me right now you can get me later um that's it I I think too we might consider um we had a lot of committee meetings this week and I know it was a very difficult time trying to get all these resolutions onto the board um agenda
094so we might need to consider moving um some of the committee meetings to the week before so that the um staff has enough time to get these recommendations into the reports of both Dr Hamilton and Mr Gorski so for the future we look like we have a lot of um things coming up so we might want to consider that and since everybody seems to have three resolutions being read tonight I have three in regard to changing meeting dates for future board of education meetings here we go so the first one it is recommended that members of the Monroe Township Board of Education approved the addition of a special Board of Education meeting for Tuesday June 5th 20 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at the high school the purpose of this meeting is for discussion related to
095composing the superintendent's written evaluation for submission to the County Board action may be taken at this meeting superintendent's evaluation doesn't go to the county for submission [Music] to board president yes to the board president clar that's going to happen that night superintendent evaluation no there will be other things on the agenda is there I need a motion in a second miss anelis Mr Masters any comments or questions this date we've already agreed to back in um I think the last meeting we had so we'll have a roll call M anelis yes Mr cherella yes Mrs fron yes Mr calman Mr Klein yes Mr Larry yes Mr Masters Mr tesler yes Mrs Pano yes Madam board president motion to change the meeting uh to establish a new meeting on June 5th passes thank you it is
096recommended that members of the Monro Township Board of Education approve moving the September 26 2012 public Board of Education meeting to Wednesday September 12th 2012 at 7:00 p.m. this is necessary as schools will be closed due to Y kapore so moved second miss analis Mr tesler we'll have a roll call Miss anelis yes Mr cherella yes Mrs Fon yes Mr calman yes Mr Klein yes Mr liry yes Mr Masters yes Mr tesler yes mam board president yes um more motion passes thank you the last one for this evening it is recommended that members of the Monroe Township Board of Education approved moving the October 24th 2012 public Board of Education meeting to Wednesday October 17th 2012 at 7:00 p.m. this is necessary as it conflicts with the dates of the njsba annual Workshop so move
097second miss antelis Mr tesler we'll have a roll call Miss antelis yes Mr cherella yes Mrs Fon yes Mr cman yes Mr Klein yes Mr ly yes Mr Masters yes Mr tesler yes Mrs colano Madam board president motion passes thank you is there any other Board of Education business okay seeing none we'll go to 13 close session resolution be it resolved that the Board of Education of the township of Monroe hereby moves to go into closed session in accordance with Sunshine Law chapter 231 of the public laws of 1975 njsa 10 coln 4-6 through 10 colum 4-21 to discuss the following subjects residency student number 85578 employee matter employee number 0000 365 student harassment student matters harassment intimidation and bullying incidents 121 through 123 and other legal matters the discussion conducted in closed session can
098be discussed to the public at such time as the matters have been resolved motion a second Mr cherella Mr Masters all in favor opposed extensions at this time the board will move into closed session yes at this time the board will move back into public session and um Dr Hamilton will read a resolution uh Madame board president members of the Board of Education it is recommended to the members of the Monroe Township Board of Education that student identified as 85578 be continuously enrolled in the Monroe Township Board of Education schools through the conclusion of the 201122 school year due to extenda circumstances second Mr Chella Miss antelis roll call Mr Gorski Miss antelis yes Mr cherella yes Mrs Fon abstain so noted Mr calman yes Mr Klein yes Mr liry yes Mr Masters yes Mr
099tesler yes Mrs kapano mam board president motion passes thank you God so at this time we will go to number 14 a public forum anyone from the public wishing to speak please come to the microphone and state your name and address for the record hi good evening Chrissy scurby 8 seminal Court I just had a question on the um I guess the assignments for next year um Mr villo is listed as the oak tree principal for the next school year um Sher Chanley is listed as the principal for Applegarth I'm assuming those are typos what page yeah 36 those would indeed be typos okay I just wanted to clarify that we proof read it twice actually and then another question I just had a question I noticed that there's two office staff a guidance counselor
100library and nurse and custodian listed for Applegarth next year all of the teachers grade four and five are still listed for oak tree do we the superintendent can make those transfers and there are positions that have been posted so that will appear on the next agenda oh okay so they the teachers currently now would have to apply no and if they have already expressed interest with their principle I could automatically do that transfer and then for whatever positions are then vacated those position positions would have to be advertised oh okay will we know by the end of the school year cuz I know okay CU that's been a big concern um and let me let me qualify that yes assuming the interview and hiring process is complete but okay and um I guess to the
101transportation committee is there a busing plan yet in place for Applegarth and oak tree next year um we can defer that to Mike because we were working on that the other day um the detail are still being uh worked out it's a deliberative process and it's nearing the end so very soon we should have a report on that okay do you know if there's going to be if the children are all going to travel to both schools on the same bus I don't believe so I don't believe so but um please hold that until um we bring that to a conclusion and address the public with that okay all right and then last I know I mentioned in an email yesterday about the windows on the second floor um is that being looked into I
102noticed there were no screens on the Windows um I don't know if that means that those windows don't get opened but I thought we said next year we'd be opening all the windows so I don't know if that's something we're going to look into I'm not sure the first floor all had screens the Applegarth the 36 building the second floor just looking around the building there were no screens up upstairs I'm not sure what the status is on that honestly Mrs scurby I'll have to get back to you on that all right all right you this go ahead um Chrissy this the the screens on the first floor may have been established for security purposes when the building was closed and uh I'll check with Mr take and see the the um plan for the
103screens throughout the school because if they're going to because we said that we would open up the windows all next year for airf flow you can't open them on a second floor without well any you can't open any window really without a screen because then bugs will come in and all right thanks thank you anyone else from the public okay seeing no one we will close public forum and when I find my place our next scheduled public Board of Education meeting will be June 5th just made oh will be um Tuesday Tuesday June 5th Tuesday June 5th 2012 at 7:00 p.m. at the high school need a motion to adjourn Mr Mr kleene and Mr tesler all in favor opposed extensions then the meeting is adjourned