001it's where the fo good evening the meeting of the Monroe Township Board of Education will come to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all may we please have a roll call Mr Gorski Mrs kapano here Mr tesler here miss anelis Mr Braverman here Mr Chella here Mr calman here Mr Masters here Mr Po here Mr proso here Mr zareski here Madam board president you have a quorum thank you in accordance with the provisions of the New Jersey open public meetings law the Monro Township Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the date time and place thereof posted
002August 15 2013 one at all schools two home News Tribune three cranberry press and four filed with the clerk of the municipality and before we start I just want to say um Miss anelis is not here this evening unfortunately her mother just recently passed away so um the board sends her our regrets to her and her family and number five student board members they are on vacation because it's summer and we look forward to having them back in September meeting and at this time we will have our cheerleaders National Championship Ring Awards um we're very excited and very proud to congratulate our Monroe Township High School cheerleaders on winning a national championship and um we are going to present them this evening with certificates and well-deserved rings as board policy okay Mr Byer you want
003to set us up and introduce who's going to introduce and then uh Mrs kapano and I will come up and present certificates and Rings yes hi um this is a great night for us um we have a fantastic achievement of these ladies um a lot of hard work a lot of fundraising went into this National Championship they start right at the end of June and they go all the way to the beginning of April um it's not something that comes every year obviously and it's a well-deserved for their hard work um they're in competitions throughout the wintertime and their fin their final event is always down in Orlando Florida where they won the americ Meriter National Championship so let's give these ladies a big [Applause] hand and at this time I'd like to introduce one
004of the co-head coaches uh Miss Kelly she will introduce each athlete and before you do that I just want to take a moment to commend the the young ladies for doing such an outstanding job and particularly those who emailed me and called my office to make sure that you got rings and to make sure that you were not overlooked and to make sure that you were held in the same regard as some of the other sports so I applaud you for [Applause] that good evening uh before we start actually calling names I would just like to acknowledge uh are graduated seniors uh many of them are not here tonight actually I don't see any of them which means they've probably moved on to the next new exciting chapter of their life um Lindsay zyber Cali
005Lucas and uh Carly Johnson were our captains this year other seniors were Ally Sullivan Jessica keano Alysa talii Brookie ason and Heather Fleming so all of those young ladies have moved on some at Florida State one at Ohio State one at the University of South Carolina they're all over so uh we certainly uh wish they were here with us tonight but we know they're here in spirit so just wanted to acknowledge those ladies all right Miss Paige [Applause] albach Alysa deasi [Applause] Ashley dils Maryanne [Applause] Glade Taylor Smith [Applause] [Music] Kayla [Applause] Cogan Brianna [Applause] Guerrero thomasine [Applause] ntio Alyssa purcel [Applause] Rebecca [Applause] tesler Gian [Applause] Vaso Stephanie [Applause] vuna Michaela agresto [Applause] Jessica albre who always smiles by the way always thank you and then the total opposite Sabrina [Applause] chafi ni Victoria
006gianola Jenna Marshall mateline [Applause] Mullen Sunny Warden [Applause] conratulations girls I just want to take this opportunity to thank you I've I picked up my ring yesterday and I keep looking down in it almost like when I got my engagement ring I keep looking at it thinking oo it's so pretty um so I want to thank you for that because uh all your hard work gave me this ring on my finger so um keep going in the same direction I I wouldn't change the direction for anything maybe just one small pit stop at States pick up that state championship and then right back on the same road to Nationals because I definitely think you have the talent to get there so thank you it's been an honor to be your coach and uh I'll be
007around so thank you girls next for another ring we expect a victory cheer from you guys oh okay we'll work on that we would have prepared had we known we had the time but that's okay thank [Applause] you um I'm Paige I'm going into my senior year and on behalf of my team I would like to thank the board of education for making this possible so thank [Applause] you and also what would a team be without its advisor so Miss Kelly thank you very much [Applause] okay and you're free to sit or [Laughter] leave that same thing Happ think girls on the board should get yeah right how about that yeah everybody goes here with the okay at this time we will go to number seven on the agenda I University presentation and we're going
008to turn this over to Dr Jeff Gorman you're on Nelson wasn't on that list was he Nelson Dan Yankee shirt up there Nelson for what no for running for I don't think so see he's the kind of guy that we have that comes to our meetings all the time it's like come on come onz these two guys also begin his attention to give him a thumbs up but he's not even looking like it's not my day Mr tesler am I on your way yeah they IAT everybody in the audience so they can follow along what am I supposed to do with this you gave an iPad okay actually we got to get something permanent doct how do you work this thing like am I am I waiting for something where we have tutors for you
009you're funny okay good evening everyone uh we wanted to give the Board of Education an update and some time to um interact with some of the tools that are our students will be using um using the iPads if you if the board recalls Courtney py was um applied and uh nominated and was successful in becoming an apple distinguished educator she's one of 2,000 in the entire nation International and nation and so over the summer she uh went to several institutes she's been bettering her trade and um she's got some really Dynamic things to show you and have you interact with uh we offered a um a course to some of our teachers at the end of last year on iTunes University as the digital um the digital era evolves so just uh to set up
010Courtney before she starts and um she she's going to wow you with what she's doing if you um if if you're familiar with iTunes um on a computer um any computer that you go to iTunes and you you go to um K to2 education um Apple has an educational platform and this has really been a foundation of a lot of the work that we've been doing um if you go to K to 12 there are over a thousand I think well over a thousand I started counting them the other night but um I I I stopped because it was too much um but what has happened is that we now are a presence on iTunes University and if you see Road Township School District that is a new presence on iTunes University so anyone um
011in the world can access this and Courtney has um developed three courses three digital courses using our resources and that could be accessed um by anyone in the world and similarly we can access courses throughout the world um from different K to2 institutions um both nationally and internationally if you look at my filter there's Australia Belgium and so even if I just filter down to the United States um it's a very extensive process so what we'd like you to do is just give us about 10 minutes and Courtney is going to take you through her course and she's going to ask you to actually use your iPad to get a feel for what the kids are starting to do in their classes um and and again this is an evolution from moving towards digital content
012and um she'll highlight all the some really um really neat things that uh that are very engaging and uh should talk about workflow and digital workflow and everything that else that goes along with it Courtney so Devon we W to County Florida just had 11,000 computers delivered and installed last week two weeks ago when I was there laptops with what kind of what kind yeah d is that's Mone I don't know I think cheerleaders might be a hard act to follow but here we go I made a little introductory video good evening Dr and I presence in iTunes University this new opportunity for students in our district will follow Foster a climate of rigor and Innovation that will improve student achievement and outcomes this educational tool combined with other resources in our iPad initiative will
013make it easy to unleash the full power of the iPad in our classrooms iTunes University is a resource that supplements our board approved curriculum in any subject allows the teachers to share course content in a powerful way and gives our students a rich and immersive learning experience using the iTunes U app for the iPad I welcome the opportunity to introduce you to this resource tonight because it is a great time to be a teacher and a student in the Monro Township School District so what I'm going to do tonight is I'm going to talk to you a little bit about the advantages of using iTunes University in the classroom one of the great advantages is that it doesn't cost anything it's free so we like that and fortunately for me because I'm now part of
014a worldwide community of Apple distinguished Educators I have the ability to access classes and content from friends of mine that are forensics teachers in Maine or geometry teachers in Kansas there's just so much free content out there that's aligned with the common cor standards it's a a really amazing tool but let me talk to you about what the first day of school in my classroom is going to look like my students will all have their iPads so I will direct them to the iTunes University app they will go in there they'll click on the K12 section and they'll scroll down to the m and I'm very proud to announce that we now have a public presence in iTunes U so my students will click on the Monroe Township School District section and depending on what
015course they have me for they'll either subscribe to forensics biology or chemistry so all of the board members should have the chemistry class um we already subscribed you into it so it should be loaded onto your iPad so I'm going to walk you through the course a little bit so you can see it has an overview then I have my instructor bio my uh students can email me um friends of mine in New York tell me funny stories that when they first made their iTunes you uh university courses public that um one of them got an email in Chinese because he had had like 162 people from uh different countries subscribe to it his class so it's it's a very exciting time to be an educator with all these resources then you have the course
016outline which just breaks down the course in various units so then there is the post section so I'm going to go to some of the beginning post it has my course syllabus links to um the science common course State Standards but one feature that I really wanted to show to the board night tonight that I'm really excited about because it just really helps with the whole workflow on the iPad is how students can take notes within the course so I'm going to uh show you a feature called video notes hello students in today's lesson we're going to be talking about chemistry science the scientific method as it relates to chemistry and the five different types of chemistry the five types of chemistry are organic chemistry inorganic chemistry biochemistry analytical chemistry so I'm pausing this right
017now hello oh oh I see that we have some eager people that are already already in it um Deon I need your technical assistance for a minute okay so um what's happening right now is our technology can't keep up with our iTunes U technology what's displayed on my screen that I can see is a split screen so I can play the video but then also there is a note function within the app that the students can pause the video at any time and they can take notes and then they can go and they can email these notes to me they can take a screenshot of these notes and send them to me through e backpack so there's a lot of different um possibilities um so I guess I will finish the video and Dr gorin
018did you want them to try maybe taking notes in it you and I can walk around in a system and G are you here also good so the three of us will help board members if you want to watch that video and maybe take a note and identify one of the types of chemistry on as you watch the video you get a flavor for what kids are doing in the class and we'll walk you through and help you out and I know Ken's an early adopter so he's already halfway into the video he's a speedboat okay the following program and last but certainly not least physical chemistry so I'm actually able now to go into the notes section which is a different part of the course and I'm going to show you so these were
019notes that I had already taken on the five different types of chemistry and and all the notes that you take in the course are are preserved throughout the school year so it eliminates uh the need for students to uh to spend money on a physical notebook for the class because it's all kind of synthesized on their iPad and then instead of worrying about having to collect homework from 30 kids I can just simply have them click on this button and they can email it to me um so I'm going to walk around and assist so how you would take notes in this is you click on this and you can type in and take notes can I write it on the paper yeah and then I can go back to the video or I can
020go to the video and then go to the note I'm here courtne I'm not sure if okay I'll get you back into the post and so are organic chemistry inorganic chemistry biochemistry tell a lecture on chemistry take not oh it always cracks I hate that I think you can actually turn autog okay and so now the rest of at all not my best subject that's why I went out C wouldn't even know what a question to ask or what a note to take right that's all right of but that's okay how was just scrolling around there symbol there my life so the next thing that I'm going to talk about within the course is an exciting thing called qualitative formative assessment we're really focused on assessment right now in this District in order to improve
021student outcomes so one thing that I like about the iPad is we have these great screencasting apps like educ creations and show me and it really gives us the ability to kind of look inside our students mind what I like about these screencasting apps is not only can I get find out whether my students know the right or wrong answer but because there's a voiceover function it gives me insight into the metacognition of my students so it's just another example of how powerful the iPad iPad can be in terms of uh improving student outcomes and improving teaching and learning so I'm going to now show you an example of a formative assessment or preest that my students would have to do the first week of school so our essential question for unit one is how
022are we going to use our knowledge observations and experimental data to solve problems is described by the scientific method this is what I want you to do for your pre-test you're going to go into edu Creations on your iPad and you're going to make me a screencast you may use visuals in the screencast and also I want to hear voice over you're going to list is many steps in the scientific method that you can remember and there's one more piece also in your screencast I want you to tell me something that you did over the summer that was scientific and explain to me why so for instance don't just tell me I ate ice cream eating ice cream is scientific but I'm really interested in the why piece what made it scientific so another great
023feature about this um this course management tool is that you can actually link apps on the iPad so now what I would like everyone to do is to click on this educ Creations app and then write for me in the app how many steps can you remember in the scientific method and we'll come around to assist disruptive yeah where he supposed to be is he on task no he's playing a game he playing a game cause me to tou write him up game that was onling we need help um no I know what I'm doing you do studying so I should I should know this and then you see how it links into the app okay what tells stuff the scientific method inails SCI they can insert pictures into it and they they record they
024get really into it that I I don't you know it's very cool were you able to get into it no okay this is why I like books yeah watching so you can you can doodle in here you can send pictures in report over so it's like a lot of different possibilities for the kids I can get to here this goes back then I go here and this oh no yes and so then you could go in you could write in the steps this lets you put pictures in and then you can also lot of different possib how do erase it now cre ESS here we go oops oh I do need to put a period there though no body of techniques investigating phenomena gole so then another thing that's really neat about this is that
025um I say I wanted my students to send it to me right away I could just simply have them take a screenshot and then there is another there's another app in here called ebackpack an e backpack makes it so assignments can be turned in really quickly to the teacher so instead of having to collect homework they can just put it in E backpack and then I have the information right away another app we use a lot is uh Socrative we use that for formative and summative assessment so that's something that I have embedded into the course okay guys this is unit four and this also you can insert books into the course you can put apps in I have images like links to periodic table then also this is something that I just built uh
026towards the end of last year and over the summer but once my students come into my classroom that adds a whole other dimension to the course because I can add my students as co-instructors and they can edit the course with me and submit a lot of their work that we're doing and another great feature about iTunes U is that it now has added a feature as of July that you can collaborate with other instructors so I'm actually going to be working with u Jenna Rose from the special education department and Jackie poo from the math department we're going to work on uh creating a problem solving course so the the ability for Monroe colleagues to collaborate is is really wonderful on the iPad then also I have plenty of links in here links to other
027resources from other chemistry teachers um links to various like I have here a link to a chemical bonding wrap um just a lot of resources that are all free and now at our students fingertips but I didn't just want to stand up here and talk about what I'm doing so I wanted to show we have an economics teacher here at the high school uh Teresa tce she put her course online last spring and hers is organized a little bit differently than mine but she has all you know all of her assignments she has her learning goal links to classroom surveys various class assignments so she has a lot of stuff here you can see she has over like 63 course documents so she really did a very thorough job implementing this in her classroom Dr
028Gman did you want to take questions definitely questions comments thoughts I just have a have a quick one in the notes section if during the video if they have a question about the course or the notes and they send you a question instead just making notes they'll be able to get an answer on that if they have a question on something absolutely um that and you you bring up a really good question about something really exciting that's going on here in classrooms in Monroe it's called the notion of the flipped classroom a lot of teachers are using it um Mrs poo is using it with like her AP statistics class and her Algebra 1 classes Dr hible Heimer is using it with the with the um the AP biology classes so it's this notion of
029the work actually starts at home the students will watch a video they'll be introduced to the content right and then they can they can watch it at home they can email the instructor questions ahead of time so they come into class so much further a ahead of the game which is certainly great opportunity in like an AP course where the teachers have pressure to cover so much content yes who owns the copyright on the iTunes you material that we generate the school so we we could actually profit off Prof it or is there some sort of exclusion to that the iTunes University is a public domain but there are different levels of copyright within based on who can use and access to content so there's different levels for example if we're using certain resources like
030from a screencast that Courtney made only Monroe Township students can can use it you you get to set the different copyright levels um when you're creating the courses and that that is definitely a hot issue in education is the different levels of copyright exposure and we're bringing in people to say exactly what level of of what copyright um boundaries we have in accessing content and in owning content but the iTunes University philosophy is a free access and that's why you see thousands of other schools and lots of courses so it's drawing that content out in in this domain for iTunes University iTunes University is a free domain the free resource I guess I guess over the you know past few years we talk about the need for textbooks and textbooks on the iPad I guess
031over over time uh content like this will just replace textbooks we wouldn't need them at all and we can get use all our content that we write or get content that other people write that are just as good as any textbook we could probably buy that that's true and it's it's a very exciting time to be a teacher um for instance last year I I had a large number of students that I Was preparing for the the hespa examination and there's not really a great textbook resource that exists for that so I collaborated with Mrs poo and Miss Rose and we created our own iBook and the students were able to use that and when we got our test scores back we found that the creation of our own content was something that we had
032really a huge Improvement our in our student outcomes good all right thank you thank you very much Courtney appreciate it well done [Applause] s Kathy while you're transitioning we'd like to extend an invitation to board members if you'd like to stop by one of the classrooms courtnees in particular to see her implementing this and get uh greater exposure to how it's working with students feel free to do so so okay and I learned I need to go back to school um okay we will go to number eight on the agenda which is a closed session to interview for the language artart supervisor I need a motion in a second to go into close session move second Mr uh Mr cherella Mr Masters all in favor I opposed extensions then at this time the board will
033go into close session I think we're going to take about 45 minutes 45 to to do our interviews and uh board discussion thank you sod the agenda at this time the board will move back into Open Session public session and go to the public forum anyone from the public wishing to speak to the agenda please come to the microphone state your name and address for the record and we will adhere to the three minutes tomorrow afternoon he meets with a team of it's not good evening Tom not Stein 15 of Daniel Street um with regard to uh on page eight item Z as in zebra the pay increase uh for Dr Jeff Gorman um could somebody tell me what percentage increase does that represent from his I believe it is one and a quarter per.
034thank you um let's bear with me it's uh I don't know the number but there on the uh under the I guess uh page 27 under Vias and Victor the contract renewal for Rapid tuition Child Care Center Payment Processing um that's also that's from Mecca is that also for the enhanced uh the enhancement program too that's correct it's it covers both programs 7.95 a month proc processing fee to allow for the online payment method which is accessible through our website I think it's a great idea um is there any um cost per transaction no okay so just a one-time fee okay well that's def that's definitely a good thing um with regard to uh X on 28 uh are these new trailers or are these just uh reapproved existing ones the sure the the county
035office requires annual applications for Renewal use of temporary classroom units so all of these units you see here are existing already and we're just filing a annual application to continue the use as delineated in the resolution um once every four years the county has to come out and actually inspect the units okay thank you um and with regard to item 16 the close session resolution I see there's uh going to be some discussion with plitka v Monroe Township Board of Ed um I I must have missed something because I thought this was settled a while back Mr Gorski uh there was a slight change in the settlement agreement as stipulated by the judge to remove uh parts of a confidentiality Clause the agreement remains intact as it was presented before just a very slight modification
036but it does require reapprovals from the public speak to the agenda Nelson Chan for Ashley Court I'd just like to ask how many textbooks are on the iPads now um I I think that um Mr uh Koffman will be giving that in his I I didn't give you that information ahead of time did I I'm I'm asking a question you didn't give it to me Comm report I can't read it from here no committee report when I get there but you're going to be giving it out to the public is that what you're telling me posting this right can somebody answer it then we'll do it under committee reports it's it's under Mr koffman's committee he said he's going to be posting it it's he going to give that information under his committee report well
037posting is different than than letting us know so you're telling us that you're going to let us know telling you now and then we're going to post it on the website okay thank you that was my question we don't have committee reports on here oh yeah yes we yes we do sorry anyone else from the public seeing no one we'll close public forum and go to the approval of minutes for the public Board of Education meeting of July 17 2013 motion and a second so moved Mr Masters oh Mr Po are you seconding the motion no I'm not second all right I need a second before we could ask any questions okay is there a second second second by Mr tesler Mr Po okay thank you uh the very last paragraph in the open session
038uh part of the minutes uh it it needs a correction I think it does not reflect what I actually did um and I can send this by email to Mr Gorski but essentially I think it would more be more accurate to say that Mr Po presented a report which had statistics for a comparison of student achievement in the school to other large high schools in middlex County and in our DFG uh it it reads somewhat differently than that okay and it's not an insignificant reading but I have no objection I think that covers the context of the discussion if you email it to me we'll put it in but the board would have to take action on that modification yeah we we would okay anyone else then we would have a roll call or anybody
039all in favor with the corrections of Mr Po all in favor I I opposed and extensions Mr seski you and Mr tiella okay approval of the meetings for the closed session public meeting of July 17 2013 Motion in a second so moved Mr Po second second by Mr Masters any comments or questions all in favor I I opposed abstentions Mr zareski and Mr cherella okay now we will go to committee reports any committees that need to report this evening Mr Kaufman curriculum talk about perfect timing um a couple months ago I had sent a uh request over to Jeff to do an overall assessment of all the uh textbooks that we are currently using at the high school to give us a snapshot of how many of them are electronic how many how many of
040them are not what's the uh intended uh pattern and where do we think we're going to be in the future uh currently uh as you can imagine there are many many textbooks here in Monro Township High School we have approximately 20 uh textbooks which are electronic versions at this time and we're going to post the information that we got this evening up on the website with the one change and I think Jeff if you can put in there as we mentioned before I'll give you one example if you will in the math department we have 1 2 3 four five six textbooks that are uh electronic versions and that represents about 80% of all math books that we have here now keeping mind a couple of things we don't just review textbooks because it's in
041Vogue we have a schedule uh it's all planned so we're not just going to go convert to electronic version if the stuff that we have has already maybe it was acquired recently It's relatively new we're not going to just go ahead and and chew new meat just because it's it it should be done right um so there's a methodology by which we're going through this process over time not to do it just to get numbers and and get that ebook or iBook number up as high as we can it's got to make sense it's got to be timely it's got to be when it's appropriate to be done um additionally as as you saw this evening during the presentation uh when we started this adventure down the uh the technology path that we T had
042taken um about 2 years ago now uh the overall intent or the vision that we had was to get us to a place where we are cutting the umbilical cord to the uh published material that we have to you know pay for I mean Publishers are in money to make money and they have to provide content and materials and stuff for us to use uh based on the demonstration you saw this evening with with miss peepe you know things like the iBook University or I University where a lot of this content is being published by staff members throughout the world in a free and open market or public domain is is definitely something that we want to embrace and try and move to uh because all of these things while they're iBooks or ebooks they
043do still have dollar values attached to them and if we can produ produce content like we saw this evening for three subject matters in Biochemistry and I forgot the other one already um then that's clearly the way we want to try and and leverage the technology the best way we can uh and additionally you know we don't have electronic or uh some of the state-of-the-art stuff in every subject matter because we have to basically buy what's out there as a commodity which is another reason why we want to try and encourage our staff to develop content because if we have a subject matter and there is no electronic version uh do we just stop because there is no electronic version move forward and if we don't if there isn't content let's create it and use
044it in our own school so uh there's going to be more to come on the stuff that we're doing as far as textbooks are concerned but I would ask that if you can Jeff uh at least put some type of representation on the books that we have what percentage of that is actually like we I think tonight we were we heard that 80% of the math books are noted here for the other subject matter there's health and fed and science and social studies the books that we have listed here represent 5 6 10 20% of all content textbooks we we gave you all the digital next month we'll give you everything right part of plain versus non-digital versus digital right all right and then we'll update it and keep a uh Progressive that's fine so
045uh and we also did approve some other curriculum material as well but uh we did have a a lot of discussion around the uh the I books and electronic textbooks and where we expect to be and how we how we're leveraging this new technology thank you thank you anyone else have a report Mr tesler thank you Kathy we having a pretty extensive uh Personnel report that I I'll read um I did it uh first thing we did is we uh conducted interviews uh for the language arts supervisor which we just concluded uh tonight um item two is we discussed uh Jeff Gorman's contract and uh we uh decided to move it up for approval on the agenda tonight which we uh just which we will in a little bit number three we uh um had
046a security transfer uh the security coordinator is recommending the transfer of a security officer from the Middle School to the high school uh currently there are five uh five security guards at the middle school and four um four day shift at the high school and his opinion be better served by doing a transfer over uh from the Middle School to the high school um there was also that Dr Hamilton shared a plan for providing a secretarial support to the elementary uh child study team members who have expressed significance and concerns about their inability to manage their case loads and attend to their secretarial and clerical needs to that end uh Dr amilton in conjunction with the Personnel committee is recommending the transfer of a transportation secretary uh to a secretarial position that would be assigned
047to each of the elementary schools on a rotational basis starting September first additionally there will be a separate assignment for uh curriculum instruction secretary two days a week to provide support to District supervisors in light of the increased increase in teacher valuations as a result of new laws coming to effect this year and we all supported that recommendation um let's see uh okay we sorry uh oh I just lost my place um substitute bus driver rate uh Dr Hamilton brought a concern to the committee by raising uh Transportation by raised by the transportation supervisor uh that there's a disparity with securing substitute bus drivers on a daily basis because of rate of pay uh we are basically uh um on low on the low of the totem pole compared to other districts so it's a
048we have a hard time getting substitute bus drivers and are in in District so it's recommended uh to raise that from 1150 an hour to 750 an hour which is an average of what other districts are doing in the area um we also had a revision of a job description um for the uh um for the secretary um that we just talked about and last but not least um uh we have been uh interviewing quite long uh for an HR position position uh after three different postings for an HR position we haven't found a suitable candidate um and it was recommended that the board considered a HR Director particularly in view of new laws governing uh teacher evaluations we all in the committee had some concerns about increasing administrative costs and uh would like the
049uh uh the administration to review how additional costs could be absorbed from other expenditures in the area so we do not have to we can have uh a person in this job that need but not increased costs so uh there have been no uh we're not going to be moving forward at this time and we're going to be discussing that further at the next uh committee meeting and that is it thank you Mr tesler does anyone else have a report that they need to nobody okay then we will go to the superintendent's report Dr Hamilton okay um good evening all um before we get into my actual report I'd like to share some information uh with the board uh in a recent addition of inside New Jersey magazine which was published as part of the
050New York New York Star Ledger Monroe Township High School exhibited encouraging results in this year's rankings of New Jersey top high schools the researchers have used a new proprietary formula as schools were evaluated over a 4-year period and that 4-year analysis looked at a growth model during this time Monro High School um as well as Monroe other schools in our district of course had to endure the able enrollment growth portable classrooms and the prospect of realignment doing due to the new new high school and the Reconstruction of our elementary and middle schools um and each school rating was was looked at by the New Jersey Department of Education and that those results were based on SAT scores HSPA results in language arts and math and they were weighted accordingly letter grades were then assigned ranging
051from a to d in descending order in addition medium home values were also calculated to determine a school's uh rating using this new new score Monroe Township High School scores Rose 26.3 points since 2008 from 3. 30 38.4 to 336.00 growth percentile of 9.2% growth this has enabled Monroe High School to move to a rating of a b uh characterize as a school rising to the top so we're very very proud of that our test scores as well as our other academic growth were above the average and certainly the administrative the administrative team at the high school and the faculty continue to strive to increase our our scores and it should also be noted that among middlex County high schools the 20 28 schools including uh The Vocational and Academy High School Monroe ranked number
052seven so I know this has been the subject of of considerable debate in the past about Monroe's rating on those those that that school report and I am proud to say that we are now identified as a school on the rise good news that is very good news thank you um the mecca report is listed in the agenda and during the board president's report she'll share a little more information about the the uh fiscal status of Mecca but our enrollment currently is 29 and there is a waiting list for their early enrichment program our current enrollment is for at 40 so moving on to our Personnel report Madame board president and members of the board it is recommended by the superintendent that Personnel action items a through FF be approved by roll call vote and
053please note a change in item e it currently reads the effective date uh for the transfer of Carol Constantino as 91 I'd like to make that date um yeah that would be thank you moved by Mr CH moved second by Mr bra Mr Cher okay any comments or questions to the superintendent Mr presiosa some personal items a to G there's quite a few resignations can you tell me what that's about oh yeah I think so was uh that's kind of hard to answer because they they vary um one is a retirement due to health that I'm I can recall uh another is a retirement due to the care of a sick spouse another is a retire uh resignation as a result of a maternity leave that I did not approve because the person wasn't eligible
054for leave so she said subsequently reti resigned um another took an administrative position in another district and the others I can't speak of off the top of my head none of them we asked except for that one right say it again they weren't asked to leave that is correct and also Mr preso could you use the microphone sorry item o x any of those new highers o through X yes new hires meaning new to these positions or new to the district we Lo a list of 17 new hires not too long ago uh uh no these are members who are elig or who have either applied for these additional assignments or all of them actually have applied for an additional assignment so they all exist staff thank you anyone else have any comments or questions
055okay seeing none we'll have a roll call Mr Gorski Mr Braverman yes Mr cherella yes Mr zareski yes Mr calman yes Mr Masters yes Mr Po Yes except on item DD I'm voting no on Peter Ruck desel whatever how the name is pronounced Mr Po would you repeat the letter please uh it's item DD DD so noted Mr proso uh yes on everything but item Z it's a no on Z so noted Mr tesler yes recuse on FF FF FF he's accusing FF so noted Mrs kapano yes madame board president Personnel items a through FF passes thank you I'm reading into the record item GG it is recommended by the superintendent that Dr Kelly Roselle be appointed as the district prek K12 supervisor of language arts and World languages at a salary of $16,500 plus
056a degree differential of $5,750 effective no later than October 4th 2014 through June I'm sorry no later than October 1st 2013 through June 30th 2014 no moved Mr Braverman and Mr Chella any comments or questions for Dr Hamilton okay seeing none we'll have a roll call Mr Braverman yes Mr cherella yes Mr zareski yes Mr Cal yes Mr Masters yes Mr Po yes Mr proso yes Mr tesler yes Mrs kapano Madame board president motion unanimously passes thank you moving on to board action item I will read this in two parts note I am pulling item I from board action since that is listed for discussion and close session so Madame board president members of the Board of Education it is recommended by the superintendent that board action items a through h and J through K
057be approved by roll call vote so move second so move by Mr tier second by Mr Masters any comments or questions from board members okay seeing none we'll have a roll call I would have a comment oh Mr Masters advertising on school property policy 6163 I I just want to renew my trying to find my notes I'm sorry um disagreement with some of the wording in that based on one of the policy meetings um again I just want to make sure because I was under a different assumption when we discussed this about um the wording that says in and on school buildings I thought we were moving toward or moving away from that wording and now I see it back in the policy document which is which is fine but um I I again I
058I I'm very uncomfortable with having policy that says it's okay the school board may put advertising in and on the school buildings so Mr Gorski mam um Mr Masters after deliberation at that policy committee meeting I believe that the committee decided to leave that language intact with the understanding that any future recommendations for advertising would still have to be brought back to the committee and the board as a resolution um for full board for majority board support So this language is uh basically a permission to go ahead and allow something to be brought back to the board at a later time and I'm still uncomfortable with it any other comments or questions seeing none we have a roll call Madam president just a couple of comments on some of the policies and I do agree
059with uh Mr Masters on the advertising I would prefer to see that our policy uh exclude advertising on the school building this way it's cut and dry uh I I would not look forward to the day when we have signed uh hanging outside our on our buildings regardless of how much money they might be bringing in but I wanted to speak to the uh policy that deals with the automatic external defibrillators uh and uh as you may recall during the policy discussion I had strongly urged that our district look into uh making sure that we have adequate uh aeds and that those aeds be uh uh be uh available during outside practices by our various teams uh we never know when an athlete is likely to get struck in the chest uh by a baseball
060hard ball uh lacrosse stick hockey stick whatever it may be and uh the rhythm of the heart is interrupted uh but I understand that uh that is going to be discussed and explored and and I I I think that's a good direction for us to move in for the safe safety of our youngsters as well as protecting the uh the district from potential lawsuits uh the other item uh I guess it would be under regulation 24 32.2 which deals with the medical examination to determine Fitness for athletics uh once again I would just like to inform the entire board that I strongly push for for this District to make sure that all of our athletes have a pre-screening in terms of uh their uh head injury or any potential injury to the brain since uh
061concussions uh when they do that examination uh the it's always good to have a baseline to compare it to so I would uh I'm basically sharing this with the with the my fellow members of the board and uh even though it's not in the policy I would strongly urge that we move in that direction uh in the future and this is once again to protect our students uh in the event that they uh they do suffer a brain concussion uh it's very very helpful when you have a baseline to compare uh the test results too thank you thank you Mr tesler just kind of on the same topic going back to the uh AED does the um does the policy uh require that if uh teams travel or practice to an outside facility like an
062outside gym or something that that gym must have an AED in it I believe it does I have a copy of the policy that I will pull up for you what number was that uh 5300 which policy just okay the policy reads A team coach licensed athletic director or other designated staff member if there is no coach or licensed athletic director who is present during athletic events or team practices shall be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the use of the AED in accordance with the provisions of njsa 262 a-25 lower a so if a team goes to an away football game or to an outside gym did they bring the ad with them correct okay okay than any other questions seeing none we'll have a roll call Mr Braverman Mr cherella yes Mr zareski yes
063yes Mr calman yes Mr Masters yes on all no on that J if I can just do 6163 if not I'm going to do a j j 616 6163 policy 6163 so noted thank you Mr Po uh yes accept item J policy 6163 so noted Mr proso yes on everything but item J 6163 no Mr tesler a ditto same thing you're going to say no to 6163 correct okay Mrs col Pano I'm going to do the same thing every yes to everything but no to policy 6163 Madame board president board action items a through L passes with the exception of J okay does that conclude your report I'm sorry that concludes my report thank you okay um we will go to the business administrator's report Mr Gorski Madame board president and members of the Monroe
064Township Board of Education it is recommended that board action items a through doublea be approved by consent roll call moved uh Mr Chella and second by Mr BR is there any comments or questions for Mr Gori seeing none we will go have a roll call Mr Braverman yes Mr Chella yes Mr zareski yes Mr calman yes Mr Masters yes Mr poy uh yes except I'm I recuse myself on items q and T So noted Mr proso yes Mr tesler yes M kapano uh yes on everything and I think I need to recuse myself on I believe it's Q so noted um Madame board president board action items a through doua passes and um I would just like to thank Mr tesler who filled in and Miss anel's unexpected absence um and um board president's absence
065to do an audit of the bill list this month um he met with Laura Allen and I and um would have made Mr Larry proud the way he went through the bail the bill list thank you very much made some made some wonderful recommendations that will take to consideration thank you it's an exciting opportunity yes it is and that con concludes my report thank okay um at this time at this time we'll go to the board president's report and I have a a few things that I would like to report this evening um the first is um my board president's report is in regard to some concerns that that was raised by a member of the public at the July 17th Board of Education meeting during the second public forum and I'd like to clarify
066those concerns so that the public has a better understanding of how the board conducts business the first issue concerns a public discussion of the salary increase for the superintendent an increase in the superintendent's salary is directly related to the superintendent superintendance evaluation as such it cannot be discussed in public nor should the board into the evaluative reasons for any salary increase although it is required by law that an increase is to be approved by the board of education at a public meeting it is considered a Personnel item between the superintendent and the members of the Board of Education and must be discussed in Clos session as with any other item on the agenda a member of the public May comment on the increase but the board members may not any comments made by the board
067memb in public would be considered negotiating in public and that is not allowed therefore the process that we have followed this year in regard to the superintendent evaluation and of subsequent increase um has been and in the past has been done correctly the second item concerns following Robert's Rules of Order and a motion to table at the last board meeting there was a motion made by a member of the Board of Education and second by another member that motion that was made was considered a main motion during deliberation a motion was made to table the discussion until the full board meets at a retreat at a future date the motion to table was acted on before the main motion the member of the public felt that I had handled the Motions inappropriately and did not
068follow Robert's Rules of Order after checking with Robert's Rules of Order twice and Consulting with our board attorney it was determined that the manner in which the Motions were handled were correct the motion to table is a priority motion which is acted upon first and requires the support of the majority of members present to pass I pride myself in making sure that the board follows Robert's Rules of Order to the best of my ability and if I have a a doubt or any um concern about how things are being handled I usually would check with Mr Gorski and Dr Hamilton to make sure that it's done right before proceeding with any any um board action so I hope that clarifies those issues um I have an update on Mecca the financial statement and Mr Gorski
069you can um let me know if I'm not correct the financial statement for the year ending June 30th 2013 found that Mecca program was at a loss of 216,000 $385 6 good news is that Mecca now has has an enrollment of 31 children which is two more than um Dr Hamilton Chang every day since the since the the agenda was written we've had two more students um and it's up from 14 last year and we said when we started this program and we implemented it that would take at least a year or two for it to become self- sustaining so we're happy that after one year we have almost doubled our enrollment and we continue to add children to that program the early childhood education program or the kindergarten program has 40 students in it
07020 in the morning program 20 in the afternoon and there's a waiting list of others who would like to attend this program we have received deposits from all Mecca children and all students attending the ECE program it is expected that these two programs will be running at a profit starting in September when we get not just the deposits but a regular income from those programs we will be analyzing these programs during the next few months to make sure that the numbers are stable and it is expected that in January of 2014 a repayment plan will begin which will pay back the $ 26,38 and6 back to the board of education and that will go through the finance committee they will talk about how they want to repay and um come up with a monthly uh
071figure and that will be approved by the full board and probably um within the next few months that will happen so that is Mecca and the last thing I have is an update and was was I correct with all those figures with the mecca yes um just uh one point of correction you did a fantastic job with the financial representations the uh the loan is $39,000 2911 as of June 3013 okay um the loss as of June 313 was 26,38 it and as you mentioned it's that loan that is going to be immediately addressed by members of the board event one one other thing that I would just like to divulge on that that I spoke with Dr Hamilton about earlier this is the first year of operations for Mecca and as we represented um
072comparing this to East Brunswick's model when they started a Child Care Program they had a similar loss in their first year and they had a loss in their second year and they became profitable in their third year um this was all disclosed the Inception of this program this loss in my opinion was expected but uh we have some numbers now on deposits for enrollment that have shown that starting in September this should turn the corner this should be profitable next year and should address Al loan quickly okay thank you Mr Gorski on update on s237 and this is from Mr Jim hooker chief of staff for Senator Greenstein s237 as every everybody knows Was Heard by the Senate budget and Appropriations Committee on June 13th and released from the committee by an 8 to3 vote
073in support the senator is in the process of sending a letter to each of the other 39 Senators requesting their support of the bill she is also reaching out to acting education commissioner Christopher surf for a meeting in regard to this matter and I believe the Senate is on a recess at this moment there is also a COR responding bill in the assembly a 3478 and we received an update on that from Miss Elizabeth Meers chief of staff for assembly assemblyman Wayne D'Angelo at this time the assembly is also in summer recess but assemblyman D'Angelo is pushing for the bill to be posted when the schedule of committee hearings is determined it is the assembly speaker along with the committee chairs who decide if a bill is to be posted or not so when the
074schedule of hearings is received we will be getting an update by assemblyman D'Angelo's office and we hope that we will be on that schedule so at this moment both bills are still in their respective committees and that concludes the board president's report so at this time we will go to Other Board business is there any other business from any member of the Board of Education I have Mr Chella yes thank you first of all I just want to congratulate our cheerleaders I'm very proud of you and I think that ol of Monroe is proud of you for uh winning and making us proud so thank you uh and one of the other things I want to bring up too is just that tonight or today is Mr Master's anniversary and his not only is he
075here on his anniversary but so is his wife so congratulations she is definitely his better half I got to know Lou pretty well over the last three years and uh but it really does speak to his dedication to the to our community that he's here tonight thank you I don't know that my wife would allow me to be here on my anniversary um one of the one of the things here that I want to bring up is with regards to the cultural arts commission and um our policy regarding uh the billing of cultural arts um I'm not looking to override our policy I'm just looking to amend um something you know the the uh the current billing because I believe that there were a couple things that happened that U we we could have done
076better as a board one I think was inform uh the township that we were changing the criteria of tearing and that we you know where we were putting Cultural Arts in that in the new tier and then the amount of money that that would that that they would be charged um in that new tier for using our services um one of the one of the things that I just want to make sure that everyone understands is that um the we're one town you know that we're we're whether we charge the township uh x amount of dollars today or they charge us for for things it's coming out of our taxpayers pockets and and that's something that we have to remember so it's not an us against them thing but I think that in this case
077um in order to address what I think was a deficiency on our part I'd like to make a motion to uh amend the amount that we currently are charging them and I have a motion in front of me that I'd like to read and then I'd like to you know I'd like to hear from from everyone else I think that the you know Cultural Arts commission is is a a great thing for our community I think that in you know civil society that the Arts are very important for uh for not only for us but for our children and I think I and I just think it's important to make sure that that that that the program still exists and that they can still operate and then going forward uh that they they have ample
078notice now of our rate change and then we can go forward and charge them accordingly so uh the motion is uh it's it is recommended to the Board of Education that the Board of Education approve the the reduction of amounts due from the township of Monroe Cultural Arts Commission on the board's aggregate invoices for the commission's use of buildings in the Monroe Township School District from the amount of $2,198 18 to the amount of 9,730 74038 in the best interest of the students and taxpayers of the Monro Township School District the board president and the business administrator slbo secretary are hereby authorized and directed to take all necessary steps to implement this action of the board is there a second to that motion second second by Mr Kaufman is there any comments or question questions
079Mr tesler just some questions for clarification do I understand what happened is and I guess correct me if from wrong because you know probably a little more maybe familiar with the issue than I am is that uh whatever event this invoice represented um you we sent the paperwork to the town they didn't realize about the uh the updated policy so they didn't realize you know what amounts was uh going to be due and um so I guess you know maybe maybe they should have read it carefully what we probably should have done is put some some kind of cover letter updating our policies on it uh so I know in in in my business every time we do some kind of rate change we don't you know necessarily stick it in the fine print we
080also send a detailed letter notifying whoever our customers are that this is going to change so we probably maybe should have been a little more clear on that so I guess that's probably what happened something like that is that accurate yeah I think that's so so uh what um and then moving forward though the Township is going to be required to adhere to the new policy is that correct with the new rate changes the new rate change and lesson learned for the Board of Education okay you know kind of Shame on us both ways but like you said I think you know we need to work together with the town and and we're one we we need to you know do what's right for our Customer because they were the customer in our endut so
081I think there may have been some mistakes in both parts Mr Braverman [Music] well you know forgive me if I ramble a little bit um this started about three months ago at a policy committee meeting in attendance was Doug po Anthony proso Kathy K myself Dr Hamilton and Mike gski in the audience was um Michelle armino and some man that I'm not familiar with we were visited by two Council persons councilman Riggs I think was the spokesman for the two of them and I think he opened his then tell me if I'm wrong he opened his statement by by saying we were broadsided we didn't expect to spend this much money on such an such a [Music] program well we had quite a discussion that night and we found that every time a use of
082building form is sent out the fees are attached to it so if you were hit broadsided because you didn't know the fees somebody didn't do due diligence well we voted to collect the whole whole money that was due Mike orski our business administrator I think reported that to Wayne Hamilton and I know I'm speaking and this is probably going to go nowhere is because I understand that many of you were contacted by the local politicians and told if you didn't turn this around they would not help us get property for a new school they would not work with us as jointly and as as cordially as they always have well let's see how cordially they have always voted worked with us for example the first time we put up the high school it was an
083$85 million referendum which included renovations to our other buildings I never heard a local politician come out and support that referendum however they said we'll get you the high school in the park for a dollar that was fantastic so the $85 million High School referendum cost us 125 million and we have a school that we're sit in that's 125,000 Square ft smaller than it should have been when we opened this school building we were charged a million5 dollars by this Township to hook up to the utilities we paid our bills because that's what you do you man up when we built our elementary schools we paid a half a million dollars each to hook up to the utilities to the township we paid our bills because we were build and that's what you're supposed to
084do you man up and you be honorable and you do the right thing I can't believe that $10,000 for this Township was such an immense amount of money that they couldn't the Ford I just can't believe it I think it was more than $10,000 it was an ego was an ego trip by the local politicians and I guess they win because most of you will Vote for This motion but I just had to get that off my chest and one more thing I think school law 18a says that our taxes for our budget are supposed to be made quarterly this Township pays it monthly so on $100 million they get a float of our money and probably earn about a million dollar from our money so I guess we do work very cordially with the
085township we're Partners in everything we do we open up our pallet our wallet and they put their hand in it so I just how to get that off my mind thank you Mr cherro yeah I just wanted to just you can say anything you want speak to a couple of these things one is that we're you know the the school is much smaller not because of the township the school is much smaller because the first Bond referendum was voted down by the people and and then this was the alternative so this is this is how we ended up here and and the township and the mayor helped us get the land for the high school they also helped us uh get the land for oak tree and that saved us millions of dollars so I
086think those are things that we have to remember plus there are things that you know we're talking about paying our fair share and things like that we decided as a board although I voted against it and so did Mr Masters to move and and and so did Mr Klein to to we voted not to move um the election to November the full board voted to move it to November and they could have charged us um for that which they decided not to do and that probably could have been what I imagine could be up to 20,000 $30,000 so um I think there are a lot of places where uh we we do work together and where that we've had a a beneficial relationship I just think that with this this is the cultural arts commission
087I think that this is a you know this is something totally different they hadn't budgeted for this each each commission is allotted a certain amount of budget and even though in in the broad scheme of things it may seem like $10,000 isn't a lot but for a specific commission it could be because it's their budget and if they don't if they don't have the money in their budget then they have to either cut programs or shows or whatever and and I just think that this is the right thing to do anyone else Mr Masters just Mike is it true and I'm not second guessing about the moving the election and the cost is that a or how much was that yes to add to Mr cherella comment um when the election was moved to November
088it the costs were um per law to be shared with the township and an election cost about $60,000 off hand I don't know what our share would be but I think Mr um Cher's estimate of $20,000 is probably reasonable which we haven't paid which we have not been invoiced for and um you know it's several months since the election now Mr proso getting a bill for that we just gonna say thanks you know our fiscal year closed out the election was back in November um I have no notification that a bill is forthcoming anyone else it doesn't minor Point Mr cofman um I can't speak for everybody I can only speak for me just to answer Marvin's question nobody from the township or any of the administrators called me and and asked me to support
089or not support it so I just want to get that off the table the other thing is Ken was mentioning before it's sort of like you know you have 20 bucks you have maybe $15 in one pocket and $5 in the other and it's you know that's what you have and it's a matter of moving money from your left pocket to your right pocket it's not like it's other income coming into the district it's not like it's an outside um Corporation that's going to be giving us money I think as we delineated before uh we probably could have done a better job of disclosing the differentials in the in the new pricing schema uh which we you know you learn and you move forward um and as we talked about before you know there could
090have been other costs related to uh charging and moving from the election from one point to the other and you know it kind of all washes out in the end um but I did want to also mention one thing you know because we bring it up all the time about building this High School in here and and what was then and what was today um it would have been nice we would have saved a whole lot of time we might have saved I don't know 6 years had the first referendum passed I know I would probably at least had one kid graduate from the new high school instead of none so it would have been great as far as time for that time but I think hindsight being 2020 I really enjoy the fact that
091the high school is located right next to the middle school so that we wouldn't have things like replication of a Athletics field for the football because that's another thing that was on the plan for the other location it would have needed another Stadium over there because it's the other side of town so overall I think while it would have been nice if the first one went I think fiscally and in the overall architecture of of being able to have you know one Athletic Field one baseball field share the resources between the campuses I think we all kind of made out in the end and I think everybody would have wanted it to happen faster but it didn't so here we are but nobody can deny one thing that the administration was completely behind this end
092product what they we're sending in today and and I have to you know give credit where credits do um a lot of people spoke both residents administrators from the school and um administrators from the from the township uh when we went to the freeholders meetings and all the other state meetings so I don't think it has anything to do with that I think I'd rather focus on what's here and now and what we said before about how we can improve our process was was spoken by all and that's where I stand anyone else yes I I have a question uh what is the actual uh relationship or affiliation between the cultural arts commission and our municipal government are they an agent of of are they are they the commission falls under the municipal government so
093so it's part of that government then is that correct yes okay and are all of their the events that they have here I would assume that they're open to all the residents uh at at the beginning you know when the event first gets advertised and tickets are available for sale is that correct yes okay so so that anyone can attend those events the moment the event becomes available yes and I believe it's open to all students for free okay uh now I if uh Mr chell's motion uh is it passes tonight uh my question is what does this mean going forward in terms of the fees that the cultural arts commission would be paying uh let's say for this coming school year they I believe that they have um already said that they would um
094honor the feast schedule going forward um i s the since these bills they have paid their other bills right they have paid but this bill fell under like a they they weren't sure because they they got bills without the the the revised fee schedule or they did not notice the revised fee schedule we did not um I look at it this way if you get a building use form every month and you're filling something out and you're filling it out again you don't always look to read to see if there's anything new in it you just assume it's the same fee schedule it might have been more appropriate if the Board of Education like um I don't know Mr Masters had said if we had um or maybe Mr tesler if we had written a
095letter and told everybody that we have a new fee schedule um it probably would have been more appropriate on our part to do have done that okay but they they are willing to move ahead and pay the appropriate fees based on the util of um whatever rooms or building they're using okay thank you anyone else so this is just a onetime deal yes I know that's let's let's talk turkey yes that's correct it's a one time deal you okay we'll have a roll call Mr Braverman no Mr Chella yes Mr zareski yes Mr calman yes Mr Masters yes Mr poy yes Mr proso in the interest of our children and our taxpayers I vote Yes Mr tesler yes Mrs kapano yes madame board president motion pass thank you is there any other board of education
096business from any other member I I would like to report on the subcommittee uh of the planning board um Mr Po uh the the planning board formed a subcommittee to uh to look into the impact of new developments in the township on the schools of Monroe and we had our first meeting on August the 6th at that meeting were were the following people Mark Rima John rigs John convery uh Wayne Hamilton Mark ramovic and David Rothman who I believe uh is the actual chair of the planning board but he was on vacation uh the decision was that the committee would uh or that three letters will be sent to potential demographers uh but none of those uh demographers uh receiving the letters would uh be the one used by our current Board of Education or
097in the the the prior demographer that we once use nor would they be uh the demographer used by the developer they wanted a completely independent demographer uh to get an independent study on the impact uh of these developments on the schools uh the study will include two developments uh both of them are being developed by uh the same developer Englewood properties uh one development is the marketpl it's referred to as the marketplace at Monroe which is down on Route 33 and Pineville Road and the other one is the Villages at Monroe which is uh up on Mount Mills Road um I I inquired about when we might anticipate this study being completed and they're anticipating it will be completed uh possibly by late September early October um the developer used Richard reading associate a princip
098Princeton to do the impact study of both projects and rating Associates actually uh and you reading through the documents you find that what they were using are procedures that were recommended in a 2006 study done by the Center for Urban policy research of ruter University um the marketplace on Route 33 is is uh call calling for 749 housing units uh they will all be town houses condos or apartments they're all attached dwellings of those 749 units 150 would be affordable housing and the projected number of schoolage children uh would be 237 but uh they did request that they make the assumption that all of the children would be attending the public schools of Monroe and if that were the case then we could anticipate according to the developers demographer we could anticipate uh 270 uh
099students uh for the school system uh the smaller development The Villages uh on Mount Mills uh that would contain 522 housing units once again all of these would be tow houses condos or apartments and of those uh 79 would be affordable housing and the projected number of students would either be 80 or if all of the students were attending our schools then it would be 94 um so we're looking just based on those two developments alone uh we're looking at uh a potential increase in in student enrollment of uh something like 300 uh 34 students uh possibly now this does not include this does not include uh other developments that are single family homes like The Orchards uh Monroe Chase being developed by Toll Brothers and I'm sure there's several others that that I'm I'm
100not on top of um so as I read through the documents I and I looked at at the figures and and the calculations uh it dawned on me that the uh the impact study only is looking at the cost of educating those students as if we had uh adequate space to provide for them and so I did uh send an email to all the members of the sub committee saying that um that this is going to be a false impact if that's all they look at that they also need to look at uh do we have the space for these kids uh because once you start talking about 300 or so children coming into the school system uh some rather simple mathematics will will tell you that you're going to need possibly uh 14 to
10118 additional classrooms um the high school was already at capacity the Middle School uh we getting a few extra classrooms there uh but then it'll probably be at capacity uh some of our elementary schools I know are already at capacity uh Woodland I don't think can take too many more kids uh they're bursting at the seams up there uh so there is the that that hidden impact of building needs and uh I did get a a a response from uh Mr Rothman uh who who I as I said I believe he chairs the planning board and he agrees that uh these impact studies need to include both the daily cost of educating these additional children as well as the need for additional classroom space so I was very very encouraged by that and he uh
102he even went further to say that very possibly uh what this subcommittee ends up uh doing could likely be the model for all future developments in Monroe which I think would be a good sign uh and I was I was very encouraged by that so so right now we we don't know exactly what the the other demographer is going to find uh however because of the methods that were used uh by the demographer that the developer used uh I I don't know if we're going to find a big change in this uh in these results but it it's still it's going to be an impact no question about it I I would add that uh these developments are not going to happen overnight you know it takes a while from from putting the shovel in
103the ground and uh the one up on Mount Mills I understand from the time the shovel goes in the dirt it could be something like 5 years before it's totally built out uh the one down on 33 which is much much larger uh I have no idea uh some of the numbers that I were I was hearing tossed around was that sometimes a development like that from the from the initial stage of the uh request for approval uh until it actually gets accomplished it can run anywhere from 8 to 10 years so it's not as if this is going to hit us overnight but nevertheless it's still going to hit us and we do have other other uh Communities going up in the in the township thank you Mr Masters you're stealing my thunder um
104I'm giving my mark Klein report and you you kind of uh yeah that it's that coefficient they use they use like it's for every uh three units one kid or something like that which was actually better than the original Builder that was the first council meeting he said uh I think every eight units would have one child which is completely unrealistic there's another coefficient it's a 3/4 coefficient and that's the one I've been using that's the one that Town Council talks about uh previously before this new um development that's one I set up uh we were about a 10 m just to Ed just the cost to educate it was about 10 to 11 million that new development on 33 will balloon that to almost 188 million plus to tending up with coefficient if you
105use some of the other coefficients the one or twos we're talking 30 30 plus million just in cost of Education that Mike's going to have to find somewhere and that's not talking about building a school that's if we cram them all into trailers in every classroom we have trailers I said that word anyone else from the board it is a huge huge impact I'm sorry that's it N I finished anyone else Mr cofin yeah I I'm I'm sorry I I I was listening to all the statistics and it's it's kind of amazing um Mr poy the um the development that's going on 33 how many units are they projecting there uh I think it's 729 okay 729 excuse me SE I'll go 800 7 that's 750 I'll go 800 800 is to 200 students for
106Route 33 right keep me honest that's what they said about 200 37 okay no I don't need that 800 is to 200 students Route 33 and 500 is to 85 for the one on mounts Mills and it's the same demographer but there might be there might be a different mix of the type of unit yes really they it's crazy these numbers it's like the um the calculation for funding well some are one-bedroom apartmentss and things like that they the the dwellings contain a different number of of of bedrooms uh the one down on 33 has some three-bedroom units I don't think there's any uh three-bedroom units up on Mount Mills uh you know I I'd have to look at that particular but that's what accounts for that difference and when they do that coefficient calculations
107they figure that three bedroom units is going to only be for uh husband and a wife that there's no family in there I'm just I'm just trying to work this out in my head or if they have a one-bedroom apartment that one-bedroom apartment will never house any students that it would only be a husband and a wife I'm I'm just I'm just trying to find what planet they're from remember what they said about apartments people in apartments don't have kids or something yeah I'm sorry I'm oh are you're I'm sorry out of control just for just give or take a couple of people the Middle School um the um what capacity the capacity at the middle school is 1,200 students and we're already over 1,400 at the middle school the capacity at the high school
108is 1,800 students and we're over 1,00 right now I don't know where we're gonna put these kids M Madam president who Mr yeah I just I just wanted to I Just Want to Thank Mr Po for taking an active role in this and then reporting back to us because I know that takes a lot of time and effort but thank you anyone else Mr just one question I'd like to thank you also but did the committee uh that you're attending raise any concerns about those numbers that they may be on the low side or you're just going to we're going to see what the new de demographers report than well says when when the first project came up for uh the initial approval uh that's when the the planning board decided that they needed to
109go for an independent uh an independent study in terms of the school impact uh because they they doubted those low numbers uh and all I'm saying is they they used uh procedures and methods that had been developed by the uh the center for urban planning out of rutar University uh which would have no interest one way or the other uh they use that and it it seems to be somewhat the standard way that they do that these days and it does take into account the type of dwelling unit how many bedrooms it has as well as the cost of the unit uh and the coefficient that that uh that Mr Masters was referring to those coefficients change according to the type of dwelling that it is an apartment versus a a multi-bedroom townhouse and things
110like that yes okay because it just seems to me that these type of housing would attract families just starting maybe they won have kids in in in the school yet but seems to me that with the cost of housing these days this will be very attractive for family starting out you know with young children ready to go to school Mr M yeah because we have a s with our attorney so so when the assessments are done and if we use their numbers and it comes out to let's say 300 new students between the combined different places because we know the students are ultimately going to wind up in the middle school and the high school and the numbers are big cuz they're already big at their numbers if we do our own study they're probably
111going to be bigger after the assessment is done what's the committee going to do what's the what's the end result are they going to recommend back to the township that they can't do it because our current infrastructure cannot support it what's Plan B good question I have I don't have an answer okay anything else for um other board business okay okay seeing none we are going to 16 close session resolution first no no no we'll do it after the um because we don't want to have three and they should only last about a half an hour um be it resolved that the Board of Education of the township of monre hereby moves to go into close session in accordance with Sunshine Law chapter 231 of the public laws of 1975 njsa 10 col 4 d
1126 through 10 colum 4-21 to discuss the following subjects this discussion to be held in close session will be about pending litigation in which the board is a party specifically the board will discuss P versus Monro Township Board of Education New Jersey Superior Court law division docket number ml1 85-110 year hearing of anarie George School District of the township of Montreal middle sex County agency docket number sl13 any information regarding the closed session discussion will be released to the public when the reasons for the discussion discussion discussing these matters in closed session no longer exists uh we'll also be discussing Personnel Employee 001 1289 and employee number 01217 again the discussion conducted in closed session can be disc closed to the public at such time as the matters have been resolved Mr cherella second second
113Mr Mr um Tesla all in favor I opposed extensions and then at this time the board will move back into Clos session hopefully we'll be out of here within a half an hour oh okay yet at this time the board will move back into Clos session I believe Dr move back into public session back into public session it's late and Dr Hamilton has a few motions he needs to read and then we will go to the public forum okay um beginning with let me just make sure board action item I it is recommended that the Board of Education approve the suspension with pay of teaching staff member employee number 01217 effective September 3rd 2013 this suspension shall continue at least until such time time as the board has received notification regarding the disposition of a
114pending matter involving employee 01217 and the board has considered the superintendent's further recommendations related to employee number 01217 employment by the board the superintendent and the business administrative board secretary are hereby authorized and directed to take all necessary steps to implement this action of the Board of Education second Mr ch and a tie I'll give it to Mr Masters comments or questions seeing none roll call Mr Braverman yes Mr Chella yes Mr zareski yes Mr calman Mr Master Mr Po yes Mr proso tler yes Mrs Co P Madam board president motion unanimously passes thank you um board action item M like Michael it is recommended that the Board of Education authorized Dr Richard LaVine to provide employee training to teaching staff St member employee number 1289 at a cost not to exceed $600 the superintendent
115of schools and the business administrator are he'll by authorized and directed to take all necessary steps to implement implement this action of the board second Masters Tesla comments questions roll call Mr Braverman yes Mr Chella Mr zareski Mr calman Mr Masters Mr Po Mr proso Mr Mr tesler yes Mrs k p Madam board president motion unanimously passes item n under board action it is recommended that the Board of Education approved the transfer of teaching staff member employee number 1289 to the position of math teacher at Monroe Township Middle School for the 2013 2014 school year the superintendent of schools and the business administrative board secretary are hereby authorized and directed to take all necessary steps to implement this action of the board move second good cherella Masters questions roll call Mr Braverman yes Mr Chella
116yes Mr zareski Mr cman Mr Masters Mr Po Mr proso Mr tesler Mrs K Madam board president motion unanimously passes board action item o practice whereas the superintend of school has recommended that the mro Township Board of Education withhold employee number 1289 employment and adjustment increments for the 2013 20104 school year due to the reason set forth in the superintendent left letter dated August 16 2013 to employee number 1289 advising him of the superintendent's recommendation to withhold his increments and whereas following due consideration the board agrees with the recommendation of the superintendent and the reasons therefore now therefore be it resolved that the Monroe Township Board of Education employee number 1289 employment and adjustment increments for the 2013 20104 school year shall be withheld so that his 20132 14 shall be fixed salary shall be
117fixed at $79,800 which is the same as his salary for the 2012 2013 school year and be it further resolved that employee number 1289 is hereby directed to attend employee training prior to his return to the classroom for the 2013 20104 school year and be it further resolved that within 10 days of the date of this resolution is approved by the board the super intendant hereby is directed to provide employee number 1289 with a copy of this resolution notifying him that his employment and adjustment increments have been withheld so second Mr Chella Mr Tesla any comments questions roll call Mr Braverman Mr Chella Mr zareski Mr cman Mr Masters Mr poy yes Mr proso Mr tesler yes this is K Pano man board president motion passes board action item p it is recommended that the
118Board of Education approve the suspension with pay of teaching staff member employee number 1217 effective September 3rd 2013 this suspension shall continue at least until such time as the board has received notification regarding the disposition of a pending matter involving employee 1217 and the board has considered the superintendent's further recommendations related to employee numbers 1217 employment by the board the superintendent and the board business administrative board secretary are hereby authorized and directed to take all necessary steps to implement this action of the Board of Education Che Mr Mr cheer Mr Masters roll call Mr Braverman Mr Chella Mr zareski Mr cman Mr Masters Mr Po yes Mr proso Mr Tesla Mrs kapano on board president motion passes we're almost done more two more two more board action item Q it is recommended that the Board
119of Education approve the previously submitted revised settlement agreement in the matter entitled ped versus Monroe Township Board of Education New Jersey Superior Court law division DOC number m-l d185 d11 the board president and the business administrative board secretary and the board attorney are hereby authorized and directed to take all necessary steps to implement the afor said settlement agreement so moved second M Mr Mr Chella Mr tesler roll call Mr Braverman yes thank you sir yes Mr Chella Mr zareski Mr Cal yes Mr Masters Mr Po yes Mr proso Mr tesler yes Mrs kman Board president motion passes and lastly board action item R it is recommended that the Board of Education one approve the previously submitted stipulation of settlement in the matter entitled in the matter of the 10year hearing of anarie George School District
120of the township of Monroe middlex County which is pending before the commissioner Board of Education New Jersey Department of Education as agency docket number 126 d613 two approve the suspension with pay of Amy George effective September 13 through 20 200 September 1st 2013 through January 31st 2014 and three accept the resignation of Mrs George effective February 1st 2014 the board president the business administrator board secretary and the board attorney are hereby authorized and directed to take all necessary steps to implement the afor said stipulation of settlement yes Mr zesi was that a motion okay second and who's the second second by Mr tesler roll call Mr Braverman yes Mr cherella Mr zareski yes Mr calman Mr Masters yes Mr Po yes Mr proso Mr tesler Mrs kapano Madam Bo president motion unanimously passes and that
121concludes the balance of the superintendent report okay then we will go to the public forum you have one minute because it's close to midnight um we will move back into public forum we move back have public forum anyone wishing to speak please come to the microphone state your name and address for the record we're going to hear to adhere to our three minutes just do you want us to start now just please no don't start again just Ben with me because some of this pertains to what you discussed well we got three minutes minutes but then after that if nobody else speaks I get another three minutes now you have 2 minutes and 45 seconds oh come on have a half a break anyway um your name and address for the record Mark Klein 53
122turnburry Drive don't start it yet um pertaining to the um the candidates when the list of candidates went out I must have gotten God I knows how many phon calls and emails thanking me for running for the school board except that I'm not running for the school board and I want this known to the people that my name is Mark Klein not Michael kleene and I would believe that I have a good name within Monroe Township and I wouldn't want somebody running who is unknown to try to capitalize on my name so I want everybody to know it's Michael Klein not Mar line so when you go to the polls and everybody should go to the polls remember it's not me as far as s237 after 2307 one of the board members came out and
123said that we lost because of my testimony first of all we won it was 83 and one and my testimony when I brought up about solo who happens to be the chairman and he's the one that sponsored the the uh conversion act that affect us and also COA was letting them know that these legislative decisions that they make how it negatively affects us in Monroe Middle sex County Education Services Commission I want to thank Mr Masters for attending the meetings every meeting and following up on or at least letting you know and us know what is transpiring at middle sex County Education uh Commission um his predecessor missed many meetings and this is right from finlin but one of the things that was discussed that was offered to us was they were willing to take
124over our transportation department we could get rid of our buses we can get rid of the drivers they would be responsible for all of the busing and do uh Mr finlin had told us it was John lry and myself that they guesstimated we would save somewhere around $100,000 or more nothing was uh it was offered to us nobody ever got back to him now this comes right after I got off the board or right before I got off the board now that takes care of that as far as the developments the state will not allow a planning board or a zoning board to turn down an application for a residential Community Based on its impact to the school system syst which is stupid you brought it up I believe Mr Masters brought it up Ken
125Chilla it's foolish I'm almost finished I mean there's nobody here and I'm not going to keep you much longer so that is what locks Us in that's what hurts us now when you're talking about um the development over by me the one that's going to be 500 um units 4 I know shut it I'll give you 30 seconds more okay no I'm almost finished all right 303 those units are two-bedroom and three-bedroom and as I said at the planning board when that came up I said I guess if they have two bedroom the husband sleeps in one and the wife sleeps in the other you have um Federal average is 1.7 children per family if you just took one per family in the two-bedroom and three-bedroom there's 403 children the one at 749 is new
126to me but I guarantee you all I ask you to do if you go to the meeting tomorrow and trust me you got to go is see what the breakdown is I have to miss it and I'll get it from Phil but see what the breakdown is two bedroom and three-bedroom that's where that's going to affect you one bedroom doesn't affect you because they have an infant that's all I asked and lastly pertaining to this I would like you to do what I did you know that affordable development they built in Englishtown man alipin Englishtown I would like you to drive through or walk through and take a look at where The Terraces are in the back and take a look at how many bicycles are there and the size of the bicycles those are
127school children don't let the build is BS here thank you very much for allowing me to speak Mr Mar thank you very much time and I have to say Kathy you run a fabulous fabulous meeting I appreciate everything all of you do thank you very much and I will be running next year okay thank you I heard anyone else from the public wishing to speak seeing no one then I get another no I I close do you want to speak hold them back oh I I've already closed public forum oh by the way public forum is closed at the next schedule Board of Education meeting Kathy one quick thing sorry oh just one quick thing no I pass by that development every day of my work and you're absolutely right about the uh so the
128next scheduled public Board of Education meeting will be this happy anniversary honey will be this Saturday August 24th 2013 9:00 a.m. at the Monro Township High School for a board retreat a motion to adjourn motion to I think that was Mr caufman got the first second by Mr tesler all in favor all opposed meeting is adjourned going now thank you