001good evening the meeting of the Monroe Township Board of Education will come to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance a pledge Ali to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all may we have a roll call Mr Gorski miss antelis miss armenio here Mr Braverman here Mr Chella here Mr calman here Mrs K Pano yes Mr noin here Mr P here Mr proso here Mr zareski here Madame board president you have a quarum present this evening thank you in accordance with the provisions of the New Jersey open public meeting law the Monroe Township Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the date time in place thereof posted
002June 6 2014 one at all schools two home News Tribune three cranberry press and four filed with the clerk of the municipality and we have a very full agenda tonight so we're going to try to get this done as some efficiently as possible and we're going to start with some recognitions we have a lot of people to recognize this evening and we're going to start with the support staff of the year and Dr Hamilton will join me okay good evening everyone I will read the resolution for the support staff of the year um and Mrs kapano will will distribute them but it says the res the resolution reads as follows where is the Board of Education of the township of Monroe County of middle SEC state of New Jersey has been apprised of the following
003be it resolved by the Board of Education Township of Monroe County of middle sex in the state of New Jersey that said Board of Education hereby wishes to acknowledge following persons as the support staff of the year and the board's appreciation for their services and whereas it is desired to express recognition for their years of faithful service now therefore be it resolved by the Board of Education of the township of monrell that it here that it does hereby express its warm appreciation and heartfelt thanks for the dedicated and Faithful Servants in the performance of their duties as secretary to the principal or par professional uh of the with the Integrity with which they continue to carry out these duties be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of
004this board of education and that a copy be given to the set employee passed unanimously by the township of Monroe Board of Education at its regular meeting of June 11th and this one is presented to Patricia manziano [Applause] Brookside [Applause] School congratulations from Barkley Brook School Dana banninger [Applause] from appleg school Mary [Applause] Lucas congratulations from Woodland Gail corus [Applause] from Oak Tree School Mary lassi L Chago did I say that [Applause] right how bad was it mavo congratulations Mary from Mil Lake School Charlotte massio than from Monroe Township Middle School Fern lie [Applause] Bros and from Monroe Township High School Terry Teresa metropa congratulations ter thank you you're very welcome congratulations yes um at this time we're going to honor our retirees and it's always a Bittersweet day in our district because uh while
005we understand that people have to retire and go on with their lives and we certainly appreciate that um we always lose some really great people and we are sorry to see them go so um we're going to honor them tonight and then wish them the best in their future endeavors and hope that they continue to always come back to Monroe Township and this resolution reads as follows whereas the Board of Education of the township of Monroe County of midc state of New Jersey has been apprised of the retirement of said employee be resolved by the Board of Education Township of Monroe County of middlex in the state of New Jersey that said Board of Education wishes to acknowledge its appreciation for the service rendered to the students and C citizens of Monroe Township whereas it
006is desired to express recognition for the many years of faithful service now therefore be it resolved by the Board of Education of the township of Monroe that it does hereby express its warm appreciation and heartfelt thanks for the dedicated and faithful service in the for performance of their duties and with the Integrity with which these duties have been carried out and regrets the loss of such respected employee be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be spread upon the minutes of the Board of Education and that a copy be given to to said employee passed unanimously by the township of Monroe Board of Education at its regular meeting of June 11th 2014 signed by board president Kathy kapano and board secretary Michael Gorski and this is presented to the custodian from Monroe Township
007High School Margaret C [Applause] CER bus driver Monroe Township Department of transportation department Car [Applause] Bar bus driver Georgette Sala [Applause] voro Spanish teacher Monroe Township High School Trudy mamor mamor [Applause] Mama Rick thank you media specialist from Monro Township Middle School Barbara Shapiro [Applause] District staff developer Monroe Township Board of Education L [Applause] Stoner guidance counselor Barkley Brook School Cathy o Ro [Applause] teacher of special education mil Lake School Barbara [Applause] hirch thank you conratulations teacher of language arts at Monroe Township Middle School Irene [Applause] curan secretary to the principal at Barkley Brook School de RKA teacher of grade six mathematics Monroe Township Middle School Laura [Applause] schroers been a pleasure pleasure teacher of kindergarten mil Lake School senor kravit years and last but not least supervisor of Art and career technology Monroe Township
008Board of Education Robert mle [Applause] I figured I'd give you a different accent today thanks [Applause] are all open okay um at this time we'd like to recognize three of our soon to be senior students for being accepted into the state of New Jersey Governor's School something that doesn't happen very often and that we're very proud of this evening it is a very competitive process and only the best of the best are accepted this program brings together some of New Jersey's most talented and motivated high school students to participate and in a unique and intensive one- month residential summer program and we're we're excited this evening that we have three students that will be participating in this program I I will read each of these certificates because they V they vary and recognition of your
009academic excellence and acceptance to the New Jersey governor School 2014 in The Sciences at Drew University the certificate is presented to Alan Zan a student at Monroe Township High School Alan is Alan here this certificate reads in recognition for your academic excellence and acceptance to the New Jersey New Jersey governor school 2014 of engineering and Technology at Ruckus University Sherry ba [Applause] it's a long walk this one is also presented in recognition of academic excellence and acceptance to the New Jersey governor school 2014 of engineering and Technology at Ruckers University the certificate is presented to adeta Kami I do that right [Applause] deep I want to acknowledge I want to acknowledge two other students as well uh two students from mundro Township High School who are here tonight and they received the governor's uh award
010in art education and they were presented their award in Trenton on May 1st and that's am Amber malat for excellence in ballet Amber stand up and for excellence in film we'll actually see a piece of Vincent's work later Vincent arer arero arizo [Applause] arizo so congratulations [Applause] and we have one more uh special presentation tonight and I'm going to ask Franchesca from our board uh student board member to come up here this certificate of appreciation is presented to miss Francesca Speranza in sincere appreciation for your dedicated service to the students and schools of mon Monro Township while serving as a student board member of the Monroe Township Board of Education from 2012 to 2014 and this is for a couple of little things minor things that Franchesca has accomplished by being a high school student
011she has been on the honor rooll the principal list she was the vice president of fund fundraising for the National Honor Society she's a member of the Spanish Honor Society the international thesbian Society she was a stage crew member of the drama club a member of the New Jersey science league and the Poetry Club I don't know how you had time to be a board member you also volunteered at the Jamesburg Presbyterian church and is a member of the special strides and Hudson ability bowling leagues when she starts her college education in um August September she will be attending the University of Delaware where she will major in chemical engineering congratulations okay at this time we will have our student board members report and this will be our last student board member report from Miss
012Barona oops good evening ladies and gentlemen um I just want to say it's been an honor to be sitting here these last two years and experience what it's like to be um at the board board of end meetings it's been a great experience thank you guys so much um now for the last time um these are the announcements that have been going on uh recently the mon tup high school held a held a blood drive on Wednesday June 4th the New York blood Association came into our school and set up a a donation center to collect blood from students and staff our school did a great job in exe executing the blood drive the auxiliary gym was Lively and full of energy with volunteer students helping run the drive dressed in hola skirts and funny
013hats the students made the blood drive enjoyable they also got rid of those firsttime Jitters by having a face painting station and handing out stickers minor Township did a great job of representing our community the drive had a great turnout of students staff and other members of the community eager to donate blood the Monro boys 4x400 track team competed in the meet of Champions on Wednesday June 4th at Frank just Frank Jost field in South planfield the meet of Champions is a track and field event where new Jersey's Elite athletes come together to compete in an assortment of events although the boys did not place in the 4X 400 they did beat their own record for mon your Township High School with a 320 a total of six records were broken this year for track
014and field also final exams start for high school students on Wednesday June 18th and end on Monday June 23rd therefore there will be 4our sessions during those days and high school graduation is on Wednesday June 25th at 3 p.m. at the Sun National Bank Center thank you [Applause] each year the state of New Jersey hosts New Jersey fire safety poster contest in an effort to promote fire prevention the theme of this year's poster contest was prevent kitchen fires submissions are divided into seven grade level categories and one winner from each category is selected from the entries throughout the state this year Barkley Brook School participated in this event in this event and even had some winners so congrats to those winners and some activities that took place at Oak tree this year that we would
015just like to highlight are a family reading night a community garden uh the second grade had a planetarium a one book one school read a variety show Book Fairs holiday shops flower shops they had a World Cup soccer day an author's visiting and a poets visiting day and they par participated in Jump Rope For The Heart fundraisers read Across America cultural expressions and a scoop night thank you thank you very much and at this time Dr Hamilton and his administration will uh have a state of the district address will deliver good evening all good evening all uh this evening we are presenting our soda or our state of the district address it is very lengthy so we're not going to go through every slide word by word in the interest of time however we will
016be posting this on Channel 28 and on the district website uh so you'll have an opportunity to review it in Greater detail at your leisure the first slide represents of course and acknowledges our Board of Education Without whom all the great work that we've been able to do over the past year would not be possible central office and District administration members of the superintendent advisory Council are listed here as well and then the extended the superintendent cabin includes the members from the previous slide in addition to our building principles and our district supervisors and vice principles make up this superintendent's extended cabinet so as the work is underway these are the foot soldiers if you will for executing the district Vision goals and the elements of the Strategic plan we've included a glossery of terms
017because there are several acronyms that we will be referring to and we've put these terms here to make your reading a little easier um AP is advanced placement and you can you can see that they are listed there most of these you will be very familiar with uh but there are a couple of new ones that I'll just draw your attention to innovate in J which is a new initiative in New Jersey uh Monroe was uh today actually inducted so to speak as one of 10 districts across the state uh who have been recognized for Innovative practices uh Dr gor we'll talk a little more about that he was representing the district there while I was representing the district uh at the County office related to our Jamesburg tuition matters um some other new or
018unfamiliar acronyms maybe park for instance you've heard it but what it represents is the partnership for assessment for Readiness for college and careers samur which is a new acronym substitution augmentation modification and redefinition student growth sgo student growth objectives you'll hear a lot of that as time goes on as it is now a part of how our teachers are being assessed and how our building principles and schools are being evaluated based on student growth objectives our vision statement which is the Catalyst by which all of our work is done where there is no vision the people will perish the m Township Board of Education commits itself to all children by preparing them to reach their full potential and to function in a global Society through a preeminent education and that coupled with the district mission
019statement the Monroe Public Schools in collaboration with the members of the community shall ensure that all children and all as emphasized received an exemplary education by well-trained committed staff in a safe and orderly environment so what the state of the district where the soda will address tonight for you is what is excellent we'll look at student demographics our curriculum our cni report some student achievement data we'll look at some comparative data from 2009 to our current school year our New Jersey performance report our business office will highlight uh functions of that office facilities Food Services Transportation fiscal review health insurance shared services most of the fiscal review you saw in the budget presentation so we'll just skim that um we'll have our elementary school report which will include a highlight uh reflection of some of
020the elementary reports from earlier in the year and Oak Tree will make a presentation tonight our Middle School report High School report a special AED report um we'll talk about our plans for Success moving forward and what lies ahead or look at our strategic plan our progress report so what does excellent looks like look like well we've been recognized as by time and world news report uh their educational report in terms of ranking of our school and the criteria that goes into being a part of that esteemed group innovate in J which I just spoke to you about our recognition for increases in our the number of students taking AP uh courses and scoring well on them increased student performance High accountability standards professional development a decrease in a number of reportable HIV cases standards
021based schools and expanding Community Partnerships so these are elements if you were to talk to people in the education Arena and you were to just say kind of arbitrarily what does Excellence look like these are the kinds of things that these people would that people would say to you just to look at some of our student demographics and it's relative in terms of our efforts to embrace all of our students and to make sure that we are teaching our children the value of diversity and multiculturalism the landscape of the district is changing and this represents how the various uh groups in our District how are are changing in enrollment or population in in our community yes sir okay good evening um taking you through some uh quick curriculum development on what we're about and where
022our focus is in the district um our driving force are the standards and that is where um we continue to develop curriculum that will lead to the eventual uh Park assessments our anchor standards for College and Career Readiness are a foundation of preparing all kids uh to be College and Career ready uh we continue to Benchmark and formatively assess so we want to know how we're doing and then when we get that feedback what are we going to do with it um again the assessments are coming up next year uh we are focusing a lot on Tech technological instructional integration for Content creation um due to all this 21st Century Learning and the shift that has occurred in the world and in educational practices Dr Hamilton mentioned our sgos and our smart goals for improving
023student performance and we continue to revise our curriculum and try to close the gaps so uh our students become prek to 12 students as a whole as opposed to Independent graded students uh our teach NJ this is the new reform for teacher and principal evaluation uh you've heard us talk about being a leader in this area in the State we were part of a 2-year pilot and uh due to the collabor incredible collaborative efforts with uh the MTA and our administrative teams and our teachers I'm really proud that we um we are we are ahead of the curve and some of the issues that you've heard in the state don't apply to us because we've had such a collaborative process and uh we're doing really well in in being a leader in teacher and staff
024evaluation creating a trusting environment um to improve practices to help students learn and that's our outcome and that's our goal um while complying with State mandates um of of the system uh of course a foundation is giving kids what they need where they are so we are always embedded in best differentiated instructional practices Dr Hamilton mentioned samur samur is a um is a professional development model it assesses how technology is being used so for example this PowerPoint is an example of substitution we're presenting it to you it is not um it serves a purpose but it doesn't get to higher levels of learning so we're evaluating ourselves constantly on how we're using technology and the impact on learning for every student that we have and of course our AVID program is really flourishing at both
025the middle in the high school continuous professional development is uh one of the direct links we believe in success in our district and you can take a look at all the different modalities of professional development that we provide for our teachers we internally TurnKey so instead of going out to a workshop teachers are embedded in turn keying the information so it doesn't just stop there we have resources throughout um and again very comprehensive this is our third year of our administrative coaching for results training that has been a very um good benefit to our administrative team on helping teachers um getting to higher levels of instructional practices um our skip teams is that's a new acronym in the state those are school-based teams of professionals that are geared towards the individual needs of professional development
026and the evaluation system um and they have a common vocabulary through a lot of our training uh and then we used other protocols to help us continue to develop um for our adults I want to show you some uh just a a snapshot of some data throughout our district you can see that our district mean is continues to be above um our dfg's or neighboring districts or like districts according to the the all DFG ratings and our state mean so we want to report out um in literacy English language arts that we continue in each grade to be above both the mean of the state and the DFG comparison in mathematics as well and this is stuff to be proud of as far as I'm concerned because uh we are doing a really good job
027um with with our kids in in a very tough time in education uh and science as well total students in the high school are high school proficiency assessment this will be eventually replaced with the park assessments as well at the high school level so that's in change and there's a lot of talk um I believe in the SAT types of questions as well at at the University level and um so some of our language arts programs that support student growth are are Bal literacy approach using the standards and the instructional shifts in literacy our benchmarks that way we measure growth regularly um study island is just one technology tool that we use that we um we give parents and kids the ability to use technology um components to uh enhance and support their learning we
028have a a summer reading program family literacy nights and school nights at the library in a partnership and we continue in the area literacy to really focus in on comprehension today we watched a video it's called the future of learning if you want to Google it it's uh it was a very powerful uh video at our innovate New Jersey conference and they talked about how powerful that the most important skills kids need today are reading comprehension um and that's where our focus is this chart I mentioned earlier shows uh our progress from 2009 to 20 2013 and what it shows you specifically is comparing the number of students the Red Bar represents the where the students were in 2009 and the blue bar represents our current status and as you can see we've decreased the
029number of students who were partially proficient and we have steadily increased uh those youngsters who are achieving at advanced level proficiency uh on NJ ASK for and M mathematics this represents our eighth grade data again showing a constant increase across the Continuum decreasing the number the goal of course is to decrease the number of students that are are identified as being partially proficient moving those youngsters from partially proficient to proficient and then then across the Continuum to advance proficiency and this represents 8th grade mathematics scores this is aespa the 11th grade score again showing a increase in partially proficient and an increase in the advanced proficiency rating fourth grade language arts literacy again the same patterns are prevalent we are increasing the number of students who are in our advanced level proficiency regardless to where
030children are across the Continuum the district initiatives that are in place are designed to move kids from one end of the Continuum to the other language arts scores at grade eight and the other thing that that I should point out too and it's not represented on here is 2009 we probably had and I don't know these numbers off the top of my head so I'm going to estimate we're probably about four maybe 500 kids less than we have in our district right now so this increase is actually more dramatic than what's represented in this chart because the in or the number of students uh actually is dramatically increased and and this is the data for our fourth grade science students and our eighth grade science students now we point out that the partially proficient number
031here is has actually increased but our Advanced proficiency rating has also increase proportionately this is the end of the um end of the course biology test for students in grade um nine and this is our Avid data so this chart actually shows where our students were in 2012 2013 year and I'll show you where they are um what the last set of data represents but we had 17 total uh students in the Avid course this represent 17 seniors this is senior data and I can hardly see the chart from here um but what's most impressive is overall the overall grade point average for those youngsters was 2.9 in 2012 2013 and the number of students who went on to excuse me for your colleges are also represented on this chart but if you look at
032this one let me back up a second 78% of those youngsters went on to postsecondary studies um during this particular school year 12 [Music] 13 1340 134 data represents 93% of our students and an increase in the grade point average to 3.2% of those youngsters represented in this group can I just can I uh go back forth also take note to um the 2012 the SAT data on the kids that are taking SATs in the corner there and then go to the 1314 data that is not only SATs but now that other that smaller piie is a combination of SATs and acts so it's another very significant jump that we've seen quantifiably in our program I think i' take over from here for a couple more yep all right good all right so as we
033continue to um prepare for uh the standards and the assessments that come um look um in September uh that we will launch a Park riness website this is uh this is a preview we are working to sub to provide resources to our teachers our students our parents common language technology links examples of of um questions so we want to make sure that we help alleviate the anxiety of these new types of tests it is a significant shift in the standardized testing process process that the whole United States are going through except states that have opted out um with some exceptions but we are busily at work in the curriculum office to provide these resources for our community to prepare so we stay proactive and you'll see there's a piece on assessments the use of Technologies
034and helpful links for you so we hopefully will launch that at the end of the summer or the beginning in September to help you um help us prepare our students for these uh assessments um as I move through the science social studies programs that are impacting growth in our in our district uh we are implementing and embedding technology at all levels in the district included uh with at the middle school where we've started to embed um uh gizmos they are simulations they're science simulations that the kids are very involved with uh one of my kids uh in another town at my in my hometown um just as an aside was asking my son something and she said how'd you learn that and he said through a gizmo obviously like it was a no-brain I was
035glad that I was able to know exactly what he was talking about um we have a lot of science fairs we're starting to compete within the nation within the state and be competitive all over the state in science um new AP courses coming out to continue um our push towards Excellence for all of our students uh our Gardens are flourishing you hear at almost every board meeting another story about our Gardens throughout the district so that is an environmental Plus for our district that's unique to Monroe um and there's some examples of some of our Digital Data soil and pH is um in the area of math we continue with lots of training for our teachers benchmarking awareness of Standards getting involved in math competitions that was the first this year for our districtwide um
036other competitions at the high school SAT prep courses increased enrollments in AP courses and just a again more competitions and how we're doing and it's very impressive as far from our lens and again um more mathematical applications towards the real world so the content we're we're using is in context with the real world so it's not just going to school and reading a book anymore and again trying to be as proactive as we can for our parents on the availability of programs for our students and the AP Stat carnival at the high school is very impressive as well and now I'll turn it over to Mike good evening my name is Mike Gorski School business administrator board secretary and I'd like to introduce the business office staff they include the following administrators Mr Jerry tag
037facilities director Miss Nancy mitac who's in the audience Nancy please stand up uh food service director Miss Laura Allen accounting supervisor Mr Reggie washingt IT director Mr Doug Gillan Transportation director and Miss Barbara D benefits coordinator uh and now um HR director and we have a tradition of excellence and remain committed to the very best Professional Services to support our staff and students that's eviden by our wanted to clap for the staff oh [Applause] okay you may continue um the slide that we just missed was the evidence of the business administrator's um audit results and once again for the year end of June 3013 we concluded an audit from our external CPA firm with no audit recommendations and no comments that's going on about 12 years with those results and we're very proud of that
038we're also subject to any more than four outside um organizations to come in and audit us at any time such as the Child Nutrition department affirmative action and uh I'll move on health insurance containment this is one one of the biggest line items in our budget and we've done a magnificent job saving um several million dollars of health insurance costs and absorbing The increased costs um provided by the Affordable Care Act Etc we save $1.8 Million by um out of the boox thinking with last year's negotiations with the mtea to offer an opt out we've had over 101 staff members give up all insurance benefits saving the district over $1.8 million and we are in full compliance with the chapter 78 law where annually employees throughout the district contribute about $2.6 million to offset health
039insurance costs we engage in a multitude of shared servicing shared service agreements and these are um aggressively sought out to control costs and share costs with other districts purchasing Food Services recycling transportation technology insurance coverage grounds care we do a fantastic job looking to say money um every possible opportunity we can and I welcome you to go through and see each category in evidence which is also available on our district website under the userfriendly budget speaking of budget um the 1415 budget was a true gem one of the most successful and and proud moments that I've had here working with budgets in 15 years we are educating over 200 new students including all those costs and getting a new child study team and guidance counselor to safeguard students buying four buses and five new Vans
040uh most of which are mandated and um replacing an instructional Roof System at the Monro Township middle school that's that material you'll see covered up in the parking lot right now and um in responsibly addressing all of those needs we've put together a budget for for the first time in 17 years has a school tax reduction on average for the community and um that that's a very proud moment for the district to provide so much and actually reduce school taxes um our transportation department has once again increased their efficiency rating according to the taxpayer guide to educational spending we are the highest efficiency rated District in the county and number three in the entire State we have new bus routes that were created and addressing increased enrollment through efficient design and better us utilization of
041existing bus routes twice a week we run late run busing services at the middle school and high school and we will continue for 1415 more routes are being brought back in housee because the service that our staff provides is second to none our food service program is another shining example of a district program that's really working very well um under the leadership of Nancy metac we've increased sales 6.3% we've decreased cost 3% we've successfully completed negotiations with the Monro Township cafeteria Association and next is our facilities Department uh we successfully R roofed the performing arts building uh we're working on it now at the Monro Township middle school and at Brookside school we we did a new roof overlay system saving $150,000 we applied for as many Rod grants as we could foresee at the
042time and that's where the state is going to um pick up 40% of the costs and reimburse us for facility repairs because the state recognizes that districts uh with the very constrictive 2% tax levy cap have kicked a lot of these projects down the road we've continued to address them on an installment basis and we're taking advantage of every state dollar that's available uh we have PSG direct stall Grant where they've gone through various buildings and replaced all the lighting and ballast with energy efficient systems we've successfully negotiated leases to provide off for special services Central registration by leasing this property uh we were able to save $130,000 as opposed to what was in the budget for the trailers um that we we're in the process of breaking down now we worked in conjunction with
043the ID it Department to complete installation of new ISDN PRI fiber data telephone communication systems which save an immense amount of money each month um we continue to work with the community ad hoc committee for district growth and through that we develop stop cap measures to create up to 11 internal classroom um Creations from otherwise non-utilized space at the Monro Township Middle School all within the budget and that concludes my slides for the business office thank [Applause] you this is just a recap on some of the presentations earlier this year Woodland School did the Woodland School news station um that was our October presentation students reported news developed by students for students about the Woodland Community and November mil Lake did where learning is real fun and meaningful uh and a look at their professional
044learning communities Brookside in January had a presentation of the various activities that happened in Brookside to make their schools their their students Global Citizens and then in February Barkley Brook went through are our students voices through a PTA sponsored assembly students created a school song and they presented their lyrics to the the board and the public Applegarth presented in May and it was historical figures actually very well done and where these historical figures came to life 31 fifth grade students presented information that they had researched about their famous person's backgrounds traits and contributions to society and tonight we have oak tree I don't know if I can reach I don't think I can reach but you're a lot taller than I thank you you're welcome hi everybody I promise I'll be fast um oak tree
045opened in 2008 the district's first Green School a place where not only colorful posters and Banners that support learning and respect Adorn the walls but where but where you will also find solar panels natural lighting and a 50,000g underground storage tank that diverts rainwater celebration is very important at Oak Tree each month a teacher is nominated by their colleagues to receive the Golden Apple award outstanding student leaders are recognized with the Falcon leadership award and in our oak oak tree Expo area student projects are on display for all to see and enjoy in 2012 we began a schoolwide positive behavior program called Rising Stars each month is dedicated to a different character pillar students rece receive star tickets for demonstrating those traits and the entire School works together to earn special celebration days one of
046which is coming up on Tuesday one event that we are most proud of is our family reading night which promotes a love of literacy last fall over 400 guests attended to see teachers dressed as story book characters guest readers and participate in stations dedicated to reading directly tied to a love for reading is our one book one school program in which I read the same book to the entire School in one day follow-up activities that connect to the text are planned and we do have a sample if you look next to the um presentation there is a book right there it's our latest product product oak tree is a growing School created by the entire School Oak Tree is very proud of our involvement in the community Through fundraising efforts we host the township Green
047fair and as has been mentioned earlier in April 2013 the oak tree Community joined together to build our garden hundreds joined to dig plant and water so if you're around this summer and you're looking for some extra vegetables or fruit please stop by and brand new to oak tree is our cultural expressions Endeavor in which each class was assigned a different country they learned the native song music literature foods and created amazing bulletin boards for our walk around the world they also represented the countries in our World Cup soccer event and in our upcoming field day which is in the Olympic theme so as you can see we have lots to be proud of at Oak Tree because we're one in a [Applause] minion I guess this is it okay all right good evening so
048we just wanted to mention a few things that make us special and as you know from Dr Gorman's presentation there was a lot of and I'm having a hard time because it's way too tall for me but there was a lot of data that was presented to you we also feel that would make children special in the middle is the combination which creates a balance for the whole child one of our philosophies in the middle school is to create a good citizen who makes good choices and as you can see we have academic accolades performance Prestige and Community collaboration we constantly support our community we are very fortunate that we have a strong Builders Club along with our student council and in their Endeavors they also go and they play a major role within our
049actual community and they do a lot of visitations which incl include their performance ability through our band and chorus in which we get to go to the adult communities which we feel is very important because they are a major part of our community center here in Monroe additionally our student council every year they go along with whatever the state particular charity may be this year they raised $6,000 for the charity which is called be a hero provides educational programs and awareness among young middle and high school students and as you can see there are various different activities that they do to support that we finished first in the state among New Jersey middle schools for donating the largest amount of money and it should also be noted that last year we finished first once again
050in the state for middle schools and the year prior we finished first in the state for middle and high schools and I think the reason why that's important it's really not just about the activities or about the money that's raised but it's about purpose and these children are given the purpose of realizing what it means to be good citizens give back to community and what it means to give to those that have less than the fortunate people that a lot of us are additionally we are in our second year of Our National Junior Honor Society which is very exciting for us we are a precursor and a feat a program to the high school's National Honor Society and they also are all about community service within the community service we were able to provide various
051different activities they decorate the school for fall holiday seasons they created and sold over 700 snowman cups which were very adorable because the point of it was all the money that was raised went to benefit the middle sex County Foster and adop opon Family Services we had a little lunch in with the children Dr Hamilton was presid and we were very excited in the amount of money we raised additionally we sponsored fundraising activities that lasted throughout the second half I would say of the school year during which time we partnered with our total community and it was a healthy competition I'd like to say we came in first to raise the most amount of money for the parents of autistic children and we also understand the importance of this program because in our own home
052at the middle school we have programs that we are embracing to make better and better so that we keep our children in District for children that happen to have autism medium steps fundraiser is another fundraiser where all the teachers volunteer with staff members to sell items and to play volleyball I played I was out of it very quickly because I'm terrible and at that time everybody continued in around Robin and we also raised approximately $3,000 and that money will be going in a scholarship fund that we'd like to name in the name of Mikey Nichols and lastly as you can see we are nothing with without our PTO we are so fortunate that our PTO is a major major contributor not just financially but emotionally and socially all of our PTO meetings are held during
053the day we have children representatives and we have a pretty good turnout for our middle school so we're very proud of that and lastly you have a picture here of our music department it is important to note that their successes are truly amazing they have done numerous different types of Festival activities and so forth and they have been winners throughout the state I think this is important because once again as a middle school we serve the purpose of balancing that whole child and we are a feeder program to our high school and are we have an exceptional high school program and we do believe it begins in the middle thank you so [Applause] much good evening the Monroe Township High School has had a lot of uh reasons to celebrate this year and I think
054because of some of the celebrations that have taken place within the I school the high school it actually uh energizes us and it's very invigorating because it makes us want to continue to reflect on the practices that we do and continue to do things that will help our students to be successful the high school is ranked number 39th by US News and World Report in New Jersey and number 15 in the US and in addition to all the things that are happening in the high school this is due to the concerted effort that starts in the elementary schools continues in the middle SCH school and then happens here in the high school so really it's a thank you to everyone to all of the staff throughout the district for making this happen and we have
055also been recognized as a AP honoral recipient because of the number of AP classes that we offer and also due to the scores that our students are receiving on the AP exams as Dr Hamilton had mentioned earlier in the evening currently the high school offers 25 advanced placement courses which is pretty awesome for our students but it also does they do have to make choices so it's a really it provides that opportunity for the students to really start to look at and think about what they're doing and why they want to do it and start asking those questions so that they can engage in that process and hopefully make the right decisions uh we are home of the 2013 group 2A National Championship mths marching band so congratulations to them we also recognize three of
056our students who were who will be participating in the uh Governor school program this summer and that really is a very prestigious program it's very difficult to get into the program so kudos to the students who really had to do a lot to complete that application and do a lot of things that the school was asking for before they were selected and the competition is fierce but those students did a a great job and we applaud all of their efforts Alan Zang who is one of our recipients for the governor School uh we celebrate his perfect score on the [Applause] SATs class of 2014 college College acceptances the College and Career Counseling Center has been very busy throughout the school year we've done a variety of we've we've offered a variety of programs to our
057students and to our parents and the counselors have been working with the students uh as they ventured through the college search and application process this is a list of college acceptances and a lot of our we have close to 90% of our students going on to two and foure schools which they will be starting in September in August and September of this year so congratulations to our students for all their hard work and school of champions again lots of reasons academically uh and athletically to celebrate and as you can see you know marching band the chair leaders National and state champs first school district uh wrestling championship and the greater middlex County white Division Championship uh in softball baseball wrestling Golf and girls basketball so our students have been very busy and it's been quite
058a rewarding year and congratulations to our inter Scholastic teams and coaches we have coaches who have done an outstanding job this year and have worked in conjunction with the students with other staff members and with parents and with community members thank you good evening um just a few slides now on our special ed Department uh looking at the Continuum of programs with the integrated preschool we have a full day preschool and we have many classes that are self-contained uh resource and in class support to take a look at the supports for our students we have related Services counseling a child study team within each building within the district structured social skills experience and parent training some highlights of some of our programs in the elementary school we have our Pal's program which are our general
059education students which integrate within our special education self-contained classrooms for academic skills reading pairs iPad games cooking and Lunch Bunch within the middle and the high school we have many social and communication skill components one of the programs is our maps at the high school which addresses emotional social and behavioral issues of some of our challenging students they're supported by a team of professionals which participate in group sessions and activities designed for many of their unique skills which Fosters the connection through service projections and Al fren's Life program which I've spoken about before which is now in its second year at the high school which has the apartment setting students between the ages of 14 through 21 um they receive structured learning job sampling they have a group called the Falcons pal which has been
060very very successful selected groups of gened students work with our special ed students during lunch and many activities and we have joined with our uh Special Olympics also which supports our students and now we are going to introduce our keynote speaker maybe are you um we have uh two a couple more slides put them at the end y um so part of uh why we are in such a celebratory mode is because our staff and the administration many of whom were represent here this evening and done a have done a fantastic job but they have really embraced the notion that Monroe is a district that is full of resources and that the more we raise the bar for our students the more eager they are to reach that bar and that's one of the great
061things about being in a place like Monroe because the administration and the the the principles vice principal supervisors the teachers and ultimately the students really believe that in the quality the depth and the breath of the work that we are doing is generating the results and I can't be happier by the commitment of of the folks who are really on the front lines making this all happen as we look to the Future uh some of the things that we will continue to do and or expand upon will include our OE process orchestrating effective effort where we make connections between our board goals our strategic plans and the various initiatives that are underway in the district we will continue to look at assessment and evaluation of our programs and sometimes results take time um when we
062begin to implement a program or project or an initiative we won't always have that data upfront but over time we create that data that helps us determine whether or not is an effect it's an effective use of our time and resources and we will continue to plan for the future because we have some significant challenges before us regarding Construction in our community community outreach so that we are in fact representing all the voices of our community those who in retired communities those who are new to our community and community and and bring in various cultural uh experiences that we need to embrace and make a part of our curriculum and our school calendar looking at student artifacts which give us real data about how well our children are doing and and moving on to managing
063for results which I have to tell you the district has completely embraced this process of looking at student achievement data to make intelligent predictions about how to Benchmark student progress and make informed educated decisions about the strategies that students need in order to reach the Target and our philosophy has been what gets monitored gets done and we now see the proof is in the pudding so what lies ahead we continue to look at our strategic plan which was designed to be a multi-year plan specifically at curriculum instruction Community engagement and business Partnerships where we look to collaborate with our staff and develop ways to capture the skills and talents of our community and engage our local business people we are also looking at facilities and finance how do we use our resources that are dwindling
064find from a fiscal standpoint uh to continue to improve our facilities and make expansions for our growing student population how do we continue to incorporate our technology initiative and expand our Arts programs and to improve communication throughout the district across vertically and horizontally in our in our district commun ation is a two-way street and this culminates into what I believe we really represent and that is our efforts to Dare To Dream looking at creating opportunities for our students to be true student leaders and I'm going to ask maretta to introduce our student speaker and then we're going to culminate our state of the district address with a video now we've tried several approaches with our soda we tried Saturday mornings we tried in the evenings we try before board meetings this year we're trying during
065board meetings uh we want to get the biggest bang for our buck but we want to make sure that our community knows where your tax dollars are going and what the results of the various initiatives and the budgetary commitments are resulting in and you're going to see tonight what we really represent okay thank you okay tonight it's my pleasure to introduce a FR sadiki who's going to read what he read at the Jared dream okay a fro ready good evening capability what does it mean it means that you are efficiently able to accomplish whatever it is that you have to do it doesn't mean that you need money power or even luck to do so it means that you have the willpower it means that you being the amazing human beings you all are have
066the courage and confidence to believe in yourself my name is Afra sadiki and I'm a dreamer I was born with not one but two physical Specialties not disabilities or shortcomings but Specialties the first one being called nagus which makes my eyes slightly shake when I try to focus on something the second specialty is called optic nerve atrophy this is a fancy way of saying I see differently I don't see things blurry or small or Shadows but I'm unable to make out details for example when I hold up a book in front of me I can see that there's lines and words on the page I can even make out how many words there are on the particular page but I can't see what the specific word is although in society the these are classified as
067disabilities they're not disabilities they're Specialties like I said before sure I'm not able to read a book like a normal person but what is normal we as a people in the world Define that besides who wants normal normal is boring anyway keep in mind that you can't spell disability without ability because of my specialties from a very early age I suffered in the classroom nobody could help me as much as they wanted to because I wouldn't let them when someone wanted to read read me something that a teacher had written on the board or someone wanted to write something down for me I tell them not to it wasn't until I realized that by shutting everyone out I was only hurting myself that I began to excel in school once I began to accept the
068help I began to excel accommodations I received made me equal to everyone else as a result I did extremely well in my academic performance and exceeded all expectations throughout my years in school I started working with the state commission for the visually impaired I was given several pieces of technology that helped me with my academics as school progressed I started to do something I myself didn't expect I started to use less and less accommodations for example in elementary school I had a small handheld magnifying glass a CCTV which enlarged things for me to read now the only thing that I use is a viia book which is what you see up here I always loved having the CCTV in Avis book because not only did it help me in my academics but it allowed me
069to be the center of attention all the time in the classroom all the oo and Nas around my various accommodations would make me feel important and let's face it how many people do you know that don't like feeling important or special fortunately for me my hard work throughout school has paid off and I will be attending the University of New Haven this fall in majoring in Business Administration and quantitative Finance although this entire period of struggle in school was very tough I gained a a sense of content and appreciation I gained this because for a year I volunteered three hours of every Saturday teaching underprivileged younger kids at a local weekend school as a result I can comfortably say that I have a whole new appreciation for everything and everyone in life moving past my
070education and impact of my dis disabilities or as I like to call them Specialties in the classroom I want to mention my socialization now I'm sure everyone in here knows how stressful a high school social life can be now imagine that and being visually impaired going to school I've learned many things the most important thing that I've learned is that in life people will judge you people will have their opinions and people will most certainly make their assumptions but as Nike promotes just do it just do what you have to do to be happy and lead a good social life personally the biggest weight in terms of a social life for me is that I will never be able to drive a car how will I go out with friends how will I get home
071how will I be independent sure I can always ask someone for a ride or take a cab but that feeling of adulthood and Independence still isn't there I'd be lying if I said that I know how to completely deal with this issue truth is I don't not to say over the years as I'm growing and maturing that I that I'm not finding ways to manage this another issue that truly bothers me is eye contact people have felt that I'm being rude little do they know that I'm a very good listener as a result of me not making eye contact ironic isn't it not being able to make eye contact is partly why I'm able to sit up here and talk for all I know no one's paying attention as much as I'd love to talk
072and sit here for the next few hours I'd like to conclude with this life is hard it really is no one said it was going to be easy now I don't mean it's hard for people with disabilities it's hard for everyone anyone can lose their job in today's economy and be given one week's pain and that's it but what are you going to do are you going to give up because it's too hard or you face rejection one too many times or are you going to stay focused until you get where you want to be in life there's eyesight and mindsight eyesight is what you see but mindsight is how you interpret it failure isn't the end it's the beginning the beginning to your dreams as well as mine and so as I started with
073today I a dreamer and I dare to dream thank you w my classification is um reading comprehension and orthopedically impaired I'm classified as uh multiply disabled my classification is autis in mathematical computation my classification is mild cognitive and impairment I have ADHD and I have a learning disability I have a specific learning disability within reading comprehension ADHD OCD Tourette Syndrome Asperger syndrome OD autism is basically a disability that prevents you from being social Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder that's ADHD and what that means to me is that I have a trouble sitting down and focusing and I'm too hyper you know I I can't sit down it means that I'm H unique from other people I work hard to overcome the disabilities threat syndrome I tick a lot and usually my biggest tick is just shaking
074my head so it's one of the reasons I grew out my hair than the fact that I look pretty cool with it I can't do word problems and and the numbers just mess me up I just can't I know it would take someone 20 minutes to do an assignment it would take me 40 minutes oppositional Defiance disorder when people tell me to do something I tend to want to do what they don't want me to do just because I'm me it's hard to for me to comprehend uh for me uh reading problems I learn at a slower pace and it takes me a little more time to do things but I still get the job done I am an honest kind and gentle person that is trying to you know help people the real me
075is like I'm very sociable I'm kind I'm polite I'm honest I'm willing to help others I'm like trying to get out there and help them what I am truly is that I'm an excellent filmmaker and I'm just a good person to be around it the real me is just a music loving kid who just likes to do anything with music I love teaching kids so I volunteer at my uh District's Middle School the real me is um I'm a very humorous I uh uh friend I'm very understanding I um it's easy for me to make friends uh I'm very Cooperative I'm friendly the real me that people may not see in school is that I'm a very caring and trustworthy person that I care about the community the real me is a blueeyed blonde 18-year-old
076girl who just loves everyone and loves to be outgoing and friendly the real me is I volunteer at the fire department um I volunteer at the first aid I work at a senior living but I am a great person and I am very trustworthy honest and I'm a great person to be around I got involved with the Pediatric hydrophilus foundation and uh their wathon and there was also a a support group a teen support group that I got involved with uh where I meet up with other uh teens with hydris and we would um talk about our experiences living with hydrus the hardest thing I've done is uh finding the right people that understand my disability being prejudged like a lot of people when they hear about my classification before they know me they always
077think like I'm like some really different weird kid the hardest thing is the tests when it comes down to a test I just I go blank I study and try as hard as I can but when it comes to a test it's just out the window it's got people that most of the time don't know me um but they uh I like I ask for their patience um and their understanding I don't like being judged by other people I don't like being left out it's really difficult and it gets me upset the hardest thing for a student with disability would be trying to make new friends like how else are you going to survive high school without friend being judged and just overcoming the judging from other people the hardest part of me being seen
078as someone with a disability is I'm afraid will people see me for who I really am will they want to be are they talking to me and trying to hang out with me because they see me as a friend or is it because they simply are doing that because they're being play and they really don't they're just trying not to hurt my feelings just because I'm hyperactive and I can't sit down and focus doesn't mean I have to be judged for something that's people put down on me it's hard to be for me in for having a disability is being in a small classroom and people pass the classroom and see a small classroom I wish I can be in a big classroom but I realize that we all all the same but we just
079learn differently things that I've done to be successful in school are studying extra time taking things more slowly and everything does get done it just takes me a little more time I have focused more on my work instead of goofing around in class and basically because of this I have achieved 15 straight honor rals and student of the month to be successful in life I've accepted my disabilities and I'm working harder to uh get past them what I have done to make myself more successful was trying to just be myself help others go out there if anyone has like disabilities or who are being picked on or thing try and help them support them make them realize that they're not the only one there's someone else out there to help them with to be successful
080in school I've stayed after school with my teachers I've asked for study guides and I've studied every way possible every year I would um meet with my teachers uh before uh school started and I would um explain my situation ways I found to be successful is making a lot of friends because even though I excel in certain things then again people don't excel in the ways that I do and so we pretty much focus on our strengths and weaknesses and together as a team you know we can do stuff together to be more successful I go to my case manager a Miss aper or my job coach I've gotten help from teachers and friends and uh that way I turned out to be a successful student anyway how I became successful in school was basically
081just getting in the mindset to get my work done before anything else and that was really hard for me for like sophomore a freshman sophomore and junior year so I just got on the mindset so I always wanted to goof around and if you just get your work done first and then you goof around you get none of that stress afterwards from having like late work I would give advice to students with disabilities to Dare To Dream to do whatever they want to be successful in whatever they can such as art music anything the advice I would give to other students with disabilities is to just never give up on your dreams like I remember being told by a bunch of different people that like going into the music field would just come out completely
082fruitless because everyone thinks that we all just want to be rock stars and the odds of that happening aren't that great but it's always there so just don't give up my advice personally to people with disabilities and people without disabilities is just be yourself we all the same but always treat people how you want to be treated because everybody learns differently and everybody has the disability and their kind everybody has a weakness and the pro for them the advice I'd give is to be yourself and don't like things get to you to be themselves don't let it worry them if someone doesn't like to talk to them or see them for who they are move on it's it's their loss not yours don't worry about it any advice to give to anyone else is to
083don't take anything too hard don't overlook things um just go just run with it I would say um self- Advocate don't don't be afraid of your disability don't try to hide it don't be embarrassed by it some advice I would give to other people is to accept your disability and uh embrace it I would tell them to accept their disability and reach for the start you know for their goal I dare to be a firefighter I dare to be a broadcaster I Dare To Dream to own a place where student where kids anyone can come and relax and have a nice hot cup of tea I dared one day to become a art assistant in high school one day I Dare To [Music] Dance I dare to become a music teacher and pass on the
084Legacy that was given to me by my music [Music] teachers I I dare to go to Capitol Hill and uh to promote hydr awareness I dare to design I dare to succeed and work hard in college in the next year I dare to be myself and I dare to film I just wanted to say that I have been very fortunate my name is Erica fredman I am um the district transition coordinator and I have been very fortunate each year that the Board of Education and administration approves um and allows us to go every year to participate in the D to dream student leadership conferences and seven of the students that were featured in the film they're all seniors are here tonight and I'd really like you to stand um um as you see Vinnie in
085the front Vincent ariso each student was filmed about 10 minutes of footage and with cooperation I appreciate so much uh your videot Tech Teacher who's here tonight Boris vadic and allowed us to film in the studio and Vinnie then took each student was filmed different uh separately um my colleague Sharon aper and Christina basil and myself uh helped you know get the questions and prompt the students but Vinnie then took those 10 minutes of footage for each student and did a fabulous job editing it and this has been shown at the State Department of Education already and they want to bring it to Washington because they feel everybody it speaks volumes and that everybody should see this film and we're very proud of it [Applause] well that was a very powerful presentation and it this
086whole presentation tonight just shows too that um it does take a village to educate all of our children and it starts at the top with the people at this table and every person whose name was on that um presentation that I don't want to miss anybody's name so I'm not going to go through them all but um it we we have had a very successful year this year and I'm so proud of what we've accomplished and our students and I think they deserve another hand okay at this time we'll go back to the agenda and uh I think we are on number 10 so we will have the presentation of Monro Education Foundation grants with Mr Ira [Applause] tesler well I'm a little for CLT after that that was another hand for the students that
087was just great each year the Monroe Education Foundation meets and uh and every year we've um send Grant applications to all the teachers and staff and we give them an opportunity to apply for a grant worth up to $2,500 and this year I'm here to give away some money and the first grant goes to out of this world discoveries scientific inquiry of the solar system second grade teachers for mil Lake and the teachers are Denise Quinn Tamara Lopez Melissa Fletcher Karen uh barki barasi Brooke creger chrisy Duca more minin kees and that's it teamwork teamwork [Applause] congratulations and the next Grant goes to Penguins on parade this is really cute uh kindergarten teaches for Barkley Brook School they actually adopt a penguin from Jackson's aquarium and a penguin actually comes and visits at the end
088of the uh at the end of the program that's Sarah Richards Lisa McHugh Ashley Pepe and Michelle gento and Melissa Cortina accepting on behalf is Aon mahun thank you uh next we have a second grade shoot for the stars uh all second grade classes for Barkley Brook School Kristen Miller uh Crystal uh D venzi I probably didn't pronounce that right and that's [Applause] it oh I'm sorry oh I I I read it too fast I'm sorry uh this is conne uh connections Balloon Shop sixth to seventh uh 6th to eth grade self-contained classes for Monro uh Middle School [Applause] and uh the next Grant goes to playing in the past the role of digital gaming in the classroom Latin grades 9 through 12 for Monroe Township High School and that's Kathleen [Applause] Hoffman and last
089but not least integrating an iPad into the elementary counseling program grades K through two for mil School Carol Clark [Applause] very much one other thing which is not part of the grants which the Education Foundation is doing we did last year last year we donated I believe two iPads for General use uh in all the elementary schools and the middle school and I believe we're doing the exact same thing again right uh this year so uh those are iPads that the teachers can check out and share uh among the staff uh so they have an opportunity to introduce iPads in the uh younger grades and if anybody's wishing to help out and uh join Monro Ed Foundation uh keep an eye on our website Monro Ed foundation.org or on Facebook and we need all the
090help we uh we can in raising money for the grants like this uh every year so I would like to present a check to the Monroe Township Board of Education for the grants for a total of $597 thank you okay um I Mr tesler asked me to come up because I'm not only the board president I'm a member of the Monroe Education Foundation and like he said um we're down to very few members in the Monro Education Foundation and one of our responsibilities has been giving back to the schools where the board budget cannot accomplish what we all want to do in order for us to continue doing that and doing our fundraisers we're going to need a lot more help than we've been getting in the past and we've been um I think the
091last few fundraisers have been dedicated to uh specific events so that the Ed Foundation has not made a dime this year so we're going to ask everybody to please go online look and wherever you can help us whether it's a a yearly donation or a part of a business or somewhere you can give us that help it is going to be very much appreciated thank you thank you very much okay I think we've accomplished a lot of the presentations this afternoon or this evening so we will go to the public forum and anyone from the public wishing to speak to the agenda please come to the microphone and state your name and address for the record Robert roach J team your field Boulevard uh during Mr gorsky's presentation uh I'm a little confused maybe I
092misunderstood what he said but I believe he indicated in talking with the 1415 budget that the taxes have decreased now now um the taxes in the general fund between 1314 and 1450 actually in 1450 increased several million dollars so I I may have misunderstood him but um maybe he can explain I believe that was Mr gorsky's part of the presentation you had said Mr Gorman um no I'm sorry so I will let Mr Gorski answer that yes Mr Ro as we've presented during the preliminary budget hearing and the final budget adoption what I had referred to was this chart showing a downward Trend in the tax levy for the last four years the general fund tax levy um in 1112 increased $316 in 1213 increased $145 in 1314 increased $42 and in 1415 the average
093school tax levy decreased $114 well when you say a decrease what are you what are you referring to I mean the total revenue that's collected for taxes did not decrease in any of those years so are you talking about a a tax raid or something I'm not sure what you're talking about I didn't see that I wasn't here for that pres presentation I'm talking about a comparative review of the school tax levy to the preceding year the average assessed home in Monroe Township in 1415 compared to 1314 will experience a school tax decrease of $114 all right so you're talking about the tax rate on an average assessed home you're not t talking about the actual tax revenue that is raised which is different School tax levy is expressed in a rate and I'm talking
094about the average school tax levy for an average assessed home which again is decreasing yeah well I think that's a um you should explain what you're talking about because when people say taxes are going down they're thinking about the total taxes that are being raised are going down now you're using a hypothetical with not a hypothetical but you're using a ratio of the tax rate to the average assess value which means some people are going to be paying less some the same some higher so it's it's not really a true it's sort of misleading I think but I I understand what you're saying I have one other question um the pre during presentation they were talking about the U the math and science going up and I think everybody's concerned with the uh fact that
095um you know we've seen that the United States in totality is not doing well against foreign countries uh and I can't remember all the forign probably Japan China India and things of that n n nature but I'm wondering um what is the Outlook I mean I I you know when you talk about those foreign countries versus United States and we're only a small portion of that these United States I wonder if there's any way we're doing better than some of the on the average of the United States or what is what do you see as the outlook for us helping these kids get to you know do better in that that type of thing um I think our Outlook is very bright um I think the the implementation of the new park assessment next year
096gives us a new barometer because it is the assessment that looks at a nationwide Target or a nationwide standard by which all students will be measured and that will give us some indication of how we really rank in comparison to other schools within the country um and then that data provides us comparative information for how we compare to other countries um but generally speaking uh United States is still doing very well in fact uh New Jersey in particular graduates almost more students we're probably about number um we're probably around 15 the top 15 or 20 in the nation in terms of our graduation rates um so I think New Jersey is doing very well and I think Monroe Affairs very well in comparison okay but will we be able to compare the United States with
097those foreign countries are they going to be measuring on the same way when they're talking about math and sciences yes yes that's what the park assessment will help us to do okay thank you very much anyone else from the public wishing to speak okay seeing no one oh I see somebody else coming just speak to the agenda yes sorry excuse my outfit I had no intentions of speaking tonight I just uh Patrice Fon 81 prol Avenue Monro Township the Dare To Dream program um brought tears to my eyes I have a um what was the term the young gentleman used special needs child who went through the system starting with um maretta Rella and Erica fredman Miss basil Irene Bara he was given opportunities um to ex to express and grow as an individual with
098a um IQ of maybe nine but a social Outlook of the same as his peers to high school and without the help of the Board of Education and these amazing teachers who always allowed him to be who he was while embracing his disability um and never never having him think that he could not expand on anything he was interested in it just brought tears to my eyes it was wonderful I knew some of those kids and it's just an amazing program and it gets better and better every year and I want to commend all of these teachers who just enriched my child's life so much and I can see it's as it moves forward thank you anyone else wishing to speak okay seeing no one else we will close public forum and go to the
099approval of minutes for the public Board of Education meeting of April 28 2014 a motion in a second so moved Mr Kaufman Mr Chella any additions or Corrections all in favor opposed extensions okay the approval of the minutes for the closed session meeting of April 28th 2014 Mr Chella Mr knin any additions or Corrections all in favor I opposed extensions the approval of the minutes for the public Board of Education meeting of May 14 2014 Mr gella Mr noin all in or additions of Corrections misso um I just wanted to know if there was a correction made to Mr Klein's uh in the during the public for if there was a correction made to his statement I believe I wrote earlier yes if you wrote us then the correction was made okay it's on the
100website okay because I I didn't have it in the packet okay so then I approve thank you anyone else all in favor opposed extensions the closed session meeting of May 14 20 14 Miss noin second miss armino all in favor oppose abstentions then um we will go to committee reports are there any committees that need to report this evening Mr Kaufman I'll try and be brief uh we had a curriculum commit committee meeting this evening uh the topic was a review of the iPad program um Jeff I'm going to punt it over to you to cover some of the Salient points and then I'll close out with some of the things we're looking to do for uh next year sure uh so the goal of our committee update was to update the committee on the
101comprehensive aspects of the iPad learning tool at the high school um we also we're looking at the um warranty on the current iPads which expired June 30th and an option and recommendations for the 2014 and 2015 school year and we also wanted to start and begin discussions on 2015 and Beyond and the possibility of sustaining tablet technology so we uh I think we accomplished those goals but we are reconvening and having an additional meeting before the next Board of Education meeting to uh further elaborate on questions that we had from some assessment topics uh we reported out on um the master plan the iPad master plan and so all the stakeholders were there the heads of the stakeholders of of the teams were there on Vision communication curriculum assessment and Reporting professional development infrastructure and
102financial planning great thanks um one of the other things we talked about of course was uh how how much the iPads are being utilized throughout the uh uh building here and we spoke about two major topics how much the staff is embracing the new technology and how much the students are actually using uh the iPads themselves um some of the statistics that are being thrown around is we're we're it's about 80% of the staff here are what would classify I guess Jeff keep me honest as as fairly proficient using the technology that we have today and uh uh 20% are uh still ramping up with respect to using the technology at least as if we would classify it on a day-to-day basis that's not to say that they don't use them at all because as
103we've seen by some of the information that we're getting relative to the student usage it's almost impossible for you not to use the iPad uh on a very regular basis in fact it was reported this evening that the iPads all 2,000 of them EXs or whatever the number is will be turned in on the very last day of school because the staff is going to need to use these for uh a lot of the final exams so uh the the things that we hear every now and then about you know are is the equipment really being utilized to its Optimum are we getting the best bang for our buck uh each year each day each week we see that the uh the technology is being used um more robustly and more completely throughout the entire
104building and as we can see by some of the examples that we're looking at um there is also a drive to start thinking about not now but maybe in the future to rolling down some of the Technologies to the lower grades as well so some of the things we talked about in the future are looking at sustaining the iPad initiative going forward uh things about warranty and covering the equipment uh which will include you know some type of insurance coverage that we will look at as well as a believe it keep me honest again duck Dux uh case for the iPads which have been held as a uh uh case which almost makes it completely indestructible again just by dropping an iPad off a building doesn't mean it's uh it's not indestructible I'm sure there
105will be some students that will test the ability to uh either destroy or not destroy uh the iPads uh we also took a look at some of the uh historical information on some of the damages that we've seen and a lot of the damage that we've seen over the years has really been crack screen so uh more to come on exactly how we're going to implement uh you know warranties and coverage over the devices in the future but uh it it suffices to say that the the iPad program is is definitely growing in usage and Mr um gor Dr Gorman forgot to turn off his device bringing up the YouTube video in the next case Okay uh so more to come on that and as uh Jeff mentioned we do have a followup to continue
106uh some of the uh um interesting points that were covered on the meeting we just actually just ran out of time so more to come Mr Po yes Madam president I'd like to I I move that we take a five minute recess some of us have been sitting for almost three hours is there a second to that all in favor I oppos oos exstension you oppose exstension the the motion has carried we'll take it till like five of so it's like seven minutes distinguished with those glass at this time the board will move back into public session and I think we will be going to the superintendent Report with Dr Hamilton the number good evening Madam board president members of the Board of Education and members of the public I am presenting the superintendence report
107this evening enclosed in your agenda please find the enrollment data for this month the outof district placement and the number of students placed on homebound instruction along with the fire drill and lockdown drills that have been conducted at the buildings and that takes me to the Personnel report Madam board president memb Board of Education it is recommended by the superintendent that Personnel items a through uu be approved by roll call vote Mr Chella second by Mr Kaufman are there any comments or questions for Dr Hamilton Miss armeno yes I have several um T is recommended that the board approve the following Personnel for school goals committee uh school year at a stien of it's a nominal fee of$ 280 $6 is that per year to each individual yes ma'am it's not monthly or anything like
108that no it's per year okay that's one um e and FF is that on your agenda yes um oh all the gra the the grad there are about 42 people going uh e with extra charges for the graduation is that over and above the $60,000 for the rental it is do we have so actually e E2 I I I'm just curious do we have a total of what the possibly is the cost for that I couldn't give you that number off the top of my head but this is what would be like the hours that are going to be ex like is it from 2: to we have to be there at what 5 3 3:00 the graduation starts um are we we counting also travel time yes they're on the buses they're going to
109all of these people will be on a bus yes we bus all the well not all of them but most of them will be on buses with because we bust the kids to the grad to the facility so people so the counselors will be on or or they'll either be at the facility or and or on the bus okay cuz it's that was one of my questions if if they could take take the bus okay that's on that one and I think I think that's it on that thank you anyone Mr Po well I I do have a question it just came to me as I was listening to that that discussion uh and I'm not certain but do do we have anyone in the facility uh to take care of like to handle a
110medical emergency if one should arise I don't know the answer to that actually I don't want to I don't want to misinform you I don't answer to sure yeah okay Mr CH I I I don't know about our [Music] staff must have somebody don't we usually take a nurse with us I want to say that but I'm not I it's not on this agenda yeah so um but I do recall seeing uh Emergency Services there before um but I don't know if that is a stand for them if we're just happen to be that that protocol I can get back to you on that and find out specifically though well just because of the number of people and the various age groups that are there uh little concerned something should happen anyone else Miss AR
111I keep finding more things QQ um the staff members for the extended school year program just can you explain that a little bit extended year program is the uh program for youngsters uh who are who have an IEP and eligible for this particular program this year the hours have actually been reduced this is the first year since I've been here anyway it hasn't been a full day program how many children will benefit by that program there's about 60 I believe kids that are in that program 62 some somewhere around there okay does anyone else have any questions oh yes one one more sorry that's okay um the uh Avid elective classes are they all new positions so number 27 28 29 30 and 31 I know Mr Dr Gorman said that the enrollment is going
112up look at it was my it was page 29 on one oh okay Personnel no it's that give me one second let me just find it they're Avid sections no these are existing sections 27 28 29 30 and 31 correct so are uh there existing but are are these new hires no okay and that's it thank you okay any other questions Mr proso yes uh on QQ did you say there was 60 kids attending the summer program this year yes how many were last year I don't know off the top of my head wasn't there close to 100 last year there may have been um but I'm just going by the numbers that and that number could actually change but based on our last conversation uh that's that's where the numbers were can I have
113that information when you sure receive it thank you anyone else then we will have a roll call Miss armeno yes for everything no on S no on S is in Sam correct thank you Mr Braverman yes Mr cherella yes Mr daresi yes Mr calman yes Mr noin yes on everything no one s Mr Po yes Mr preso so yes on everything no on S this K Pano yes mam board president Personnel items a through uyu passes thank you moving on to the board Action Report Madame board president members of the Board of Education it is recommended by the superintendent going to make a modification that board action board action items a through R be approved by roll call Vote with the following modification under field trips item 284 the field trip to California I'd like
114to pull that for further review what what page be on the addendum the superintendent um yes material a motion some sorry Mr Trella and Mr cofman any comments or questions for Dr Hamilton what have you I don't understand what are we removing um the field there under field trips which is item c c underboard action the supplemental material lists uh several field trips numbers 282 through 289 I'm uh tabling 284 which is specifically the trip to California for ban and chorus performance do you have comments question should should we com should we talk about that or that's for future date that's for future date okay um the I uh it is recommended that board approve the revised benefits coordinator job description um um is that is that with no additional salary increase as there's no
115additional salary increase associated with that okay thank you anyone else seeing no one we will have a roll call on the board action items a through R A through K I'm sorry if I said R it's K okay A through K and on letter c um tling the field trip to California M AR Mino yes Mr Braverman yes Mr cherella yes Mr zareski yes Mr calman yes Mr nosin yes Mr Po yes Mr proso yes Mrs K Pano yes madame board president board action items pass um before I conclude my report I'd like to take a moment if the board will indulge me to ask Dr Gorman to just report out uh this morning while I was attending a meeting at the County office uh Dr Gorman attended another meeting in my stad for uh
116innovate NJ and I'd like him to just kind of report briefly what that meeting was about okay uh we um the Department of Education has created a new dep um a new program called innovate NJ it's actually um there are n National pockets of innovative um communities in different states as well and innovate NJ we were one of 10 schools that the Department of Education chose um as an Innovative School District so we did a uh presentation and we were involved in a community and we were asked to um share and partner with other schools to promote Innovative practices throughout New Jersey we highlighted um specifically three today um with our iPad the professional development our Blended learning concept and our AVID program um we're in the likes of P SC Valley Freel Township um
117vhe some very um prestigious schools uh there is a link that I I think I've provided you in my news on um innovate NJ we shot a a video that will be up there um with um involved our students and our staff members a very very positive experience um from the state and the feedback both ways um flourishing community uh we were the inaugural group and uh they did reject other schools as well but they consider them partners and they're trying to grow that practice it did revolve around a lot of it was revolved around um technology student growth objectives and practices that are closing the achievement Gap and uh embracing 21st Century Learning so we were honored to be there and again very well received by everyone thank you thank you and that concludes
118the superintendent's report okay then we will go to the business administrator's report Mr Gorski Madame board president and members of the Mona Township Board of Education it is recommended that board action items a through Double K be approved by consent roll call with the exception of Q which is pulled for close session discussion relative to the contractual terms of uh the board solicitor anybody Mr tiella Mr Kaufman are there any questions or comments for Mr Gorski Mr Po uh yes item uh item H uh refers to the Genesis Educational Services and and I know I've heard this tossed around you know uh for for some time now but could you just give me a brief explanation as to what that is you know what what those services are Genesis is a software program that manages
119all of our student data um report cards um lunch information demographic information parent contact emergency it's our student management software system okay thank you Mr cherella yeah just on um can you use your microphone I can't hear you here thanks on E and FF I just want to make sure that when we go out and we look for independent contractors for busing you know for any any of the our busing needs above and beyond what we could fulfill with our own Fleet that we make sure that they have radios that they have background checks on their bus drivers and also that they have strict and stringent guidelines with regards to smoking on buses and things like that I'm not going to name the company but I have seen an independent bus company where the where
120bus drivers have been smoking while they're driving and and with students in the bus and things like that I've tried to report that when I could at one point I thought maybe that that bus was working for us because it was in Monroe and I reported that here turned out it was going to another District which really doesn't change the fact that they have bus drivers smoking on their buses so I just I just want to make sure that we're we're doing everything we possibly can with anybody that we're Outsourcing to that they that that they are up to our standards because that scares me when I see stuff like that thank you anyone Miss armeno yes I'd also like to add on E and FF are are these General regular roots or are these
121in in addition to what we normally do e is budgeted contracted field trips and athletic trips which are in the budget and FF is Pupil Transportation contract renewals um for field and athletic trips is it that we can't accommodate them with our Fleet or is it a timing issue that is correct it's your earlier statement we cannot accommodate those with our tiered busing system so uh those are contracted out the value of those do we have do you have that on each one no I'd have to compile that information okay I mean would would it be ho us to buy another bus and another and and hire another bus driver for for I agree with Mr Chella that we're safer with our own employees and we have very good employees for that there's absolutely no
122contest to that statement our our transportation um employees provide a a service that is second to none right we've heard that repeatedly and um through the prior board and this current board we are making aggressive strides to purchase more buses and bring back the fleet inhouse there was a cost saving benefit that was um implemented years ago because a contracted bus on on an annual basis is about $115,000 cheaper because they don't pay their employees benefits where the district does that offers great continuity of the driver uh familiarity with the routes um compliance with the district's policies and regulations safety the safety the Ed um middle sex Regional ed Service Commission does do a fine job and they have very stringent procedures and regulations just like Monroe but here we enforce them um there it's
123out of our hand to a degree we did put in the bid specs uh recently to include cameras in all of the contracted routes so as those routes are renewing we have now required cameras on them is it appropriate I don't know if it's appropriate to say this now could could we ask for a comparison of costs because if it's a minimum minimal cost in addition to what we're paying then the board can maybe be more informed as to go further like with our own bus yes I can give you that that analysis um an additional burden on your daily activity Mr that's okay it's it's worthwhile um like I said as a benchmark a full 54 passenger bus utilized on an annual basis is about a $155,000 savings to contract it out but there
124is a degree of service that is not attained by doing so and some of the contracted routes are out of necessity for example if if a child requires a van with a lift for special education purposes um it it would be cost ineffective to buy such a van for one or two students so that's contracted out and field trips and athletic trips are infrequent and um very hard to schedule and to have a full-time driver or a bus sitting idle for that would lower the efficiency rating and when we do this do do we pay for this in advance or do we pay per trip no it's per trip so so they're sort of on hold right sort of like a retainer and then when we need them we call them we have to get
125them that's exactly right thank you anyone else Mr knin um with regard I I correct me maybe I wasn't listening uh we're pulling Q is that what you said uh the attorney of record yes we yes and and we're going to do what we have we're going to discuss we're going to put it under closed session in another meeting or tonight tonight I'm going to add it to Clos session anyone else Mr proso on W Michael what uh I'm sorry whoever could answer it the asbest award what part of the middle school has to be service the Monro Township middle school has certain areas that are in our adhera plan ah um that are designated to contain non-friable asbestos they are in some of the science tables they are in some of the flooring the
126floor tiles and um that is being removed um and remediated as part of this um bid so that we can um proceed with internal renovations to create more classroom space within the school and get this stuff get this material out of there so you don't have to do it on an as classroom um construction basis and FF and E those are M basically special ed uh students being at a district correct pup Transportation contract renewals um that's what we just talked about e e is field trips and Athletics trips um that's a combination and FF is um contracted field trips Athletics trip special education yes yes on FF thank you m armeno yes on uh double a the contract renewal for Mets culinary management I know I wasn't here for that last year or was
127it but um one of the reasons why we switch Services was to to get additional funds how how does that $400 in management fees now is that over the over the life of the contract just one time 400 it's just an increase of $400 for a lot of these contracts uh adjust for inflation particularly the ones that are allowed by law to be multi-year contracts which the Food Service management company contract qualifies for so um last year was the base year for Mets and as Nancy metac and I would attest their services provided to the monor Township Board of Education has added a great Improvement not only to the quality of the food from uh from Farm to Plate initiatives to um better management of the school district cafeteria staff and um it has increased
128participation as we mentioned before and has actually decreased costs as part of that contract that was awarded in the base year there was a guaranteed profit of which the figure uh escapes my memory at the moment um and we are on track to meet that so the cafeteria um program is functioning extraordinarily well and um is on track to meet those commitments by Mets thank you anyone else seeing no one we will have a roll call M armeno yes Mr Braverman Mr cherella yes Mr zareski yes Mr calman yes Mr nosin yes Mr Po yes but I refuse myself on A10 and L because I'm on the middle sex County Regional Ed Services Commission board point of order she has to I do have to recuse myself I'm sorry on JJ and I and I
129I m so noted JJ and I I Mr proso yes Mrs kapano Madame board president board action items a through KK with the exception of Q passes okay thank you very much that concludes my report thank you okay um board president's report um we've had a long meeting so I'm going to try to keep this short and I know it's hard to believe that this is our last meeting for this school year um this one seemed to have gone fast um recently I had the opportunity to attend the high school PTA Scholastic achievement dinner and a scholarship evening and I was amazed at what our kids have done this year what our seniors have accomplished this year so I just want to give you um some statistics for the class of 2014 um the seniors
130reported being a awarded approximately 847 different scholarships totaling $233,100 which I think is amazing and we had one senior who received a full rooc scholarship we had six National Merit Scholarship commended Scholars and approximately 100 seniors hold held membership in the National Honor Society uh 88% of our children are furthering their education whether they're at a 2-year School a 4-year school or a Career Institute 2% will be entering the military and 10% are going into EMP in the employment industry um we've had students that have for first of all they've been accepted to over 200 different colleges and some of them have received scholarships to continue playing sports and I was amaz Amed at the variety of sports and clubs and jobs that were held the volunteer work that these students did the mentoring that
131they did for others and I wish I could have written it down but by the time I was reading everything I was just um so floored that I I just forgot to write everything down so um I I think with everything that we've accomplished this year it it's been really good so I'm very proud of of where we are so at this time we will go to Other Board of Education business and is there any other business by any member of the Board of Education Mr TI yeah I just want to give a quick um planning board update as to what happened at the last planning board meeting and I apologize because the planning board meeting before that we had a meeting which um coincide yeah which is yeah got in the way of me
132attending that one so um we only had a couple of items at the last planning board meeting one was a change in classification from uh commercial to a classification that would allow for a PRC development over by the turnpike and the border of uh South Brunswick I think that's South River Cranberry Road or uh cranberry cranberry South River Road 635 is it yeah yeah um and and so that that passed so I it allows it'll allow for a development of another PRC should the developer decide to do that um and then there was a Clos session item to discuss a legal matter with regards to a larger development I don't know how much I could say about that but that's it was closed session so I could just say that we had that that was
133it it was a short meeting thank you anyone else Mr Kaufman um can we find out if we got sign offs that that video we saw tonight was just completely inspiring and I'd love to be able to find out if we could put that on our website to see it's going up it's got to it's got to right it's got to be out there it's part of the soda so it okay should do that for your Channel 28 too yeah Mr poy yeah just a brief comment um I appreciated Dr Garmin setting uh working with the uh folks in our uh technological Arts industrial Arts uh Department uh I was very interested in the project lead the way uh I learned an awful lot from that visit um I was very impressed with the teachers
134that are involved in the program I was very impressed with the program itself uh I I really thought it's just a a great program and uh we we need to do as much as we can to publicize this to the community because I think there we have a lot of Engineers that live in the community and uh they would find this program uh quite outstanding in terms of how it introduces our students to uh the world of Engineering in a very practical Hands-On way uh it was just uh just truly tremendous and it would probably be beneficial to the entire board to see some type of uh but the best thing is going in there and seeing it uh doing a presentation here I don't think it'd get the same effect but it was really
135outstanding that's it anyone else okay seeing no one we will go to close session resolution be it resolved that the Board of Education of the township of Monroe hereby moves to go into closed session in accordance with the Sunshine Law chapter 231 of the public laws of 1975 and njsa 10 col 4-6 through 10 col 4-21 to discuss the following subjects Personnel superintendent evaluation harassment intimidation and bullying incidents 38 39 and 40 and we've added the attorney contract review the discussion conducted in close session can be disclosed to the public at such time as the need for confidentiality no longer exists move Mr n Mr armeno Question other question um on on the motion um we don't have questions on okay um we're going to be discussing board attorney Evans versus Atlantic City says that
136the send Reed District representative is not allowed to participate in that discussion is that an accurate assessment Madam yes um thank you for presenting that I did discuss that um very case with the board attorney today she said that case focuses on the right to vote on the appointment of the board solicitor not to deliberate in the close session so she was okay with him deliberating in the Clos session but would not be a valid uh vote for the uh sending District to vote okay I I don't I realize that makes no sense why would you to be deliberating in close session if you can't vote um that's the advice that I was told yeah we've asked this before with other questions and the the um Jamesburg rep is always allowed to discuss they just
137can't always vote whether it's right or wrong it's the attorney recommendation Mr Mino okay my question then would be it would still be the regulations of closed session and confidentiality would still be involved even though the Jamesburg representative is is is not able to vote in this session yes so even though he wasn't allowed to vote or to even attend the closed session on the Jamesburg litigation he would not have been able to vote on that should he have not been he should have been in there then is what we're saying no not not in that case it's a what is it a case by case basis well no there in that matter there's a clear conflict um and to prevent uh the Jamesburg representative from from potentially being accused of hearing something that went
138back to the to the board um there's an exclusion available for that but upon the desire to deliberate in any other items that there's not a conflict even if the person can vote um they they can still do so according to the attorney did we do all in favor do we do have a motion we have a motion we have a second all all in favor I opposed abstentions then at this time the board will move into Clos session come at this time the board will go back into public session and I believe we have a few resolutions to be read this evening it is recommended that the Monroe Township Board of Education approve an annual salary increase for Dr Kenneth R Hamilton to 2,776 2000 comma 776 for the period from July 1st 14
139through June 315 the business administrator board secretary is authorized to execute the aformentioned employment contract on behalf of the board second comments or questions then we will have a roll call Miss armeno I abstain Mr Braverman yes Mr cherella yes Mr zareski yes Mr calman Rees Mr noin yes Mr Po yes Mr proso abstain Mrs K Pano Madame board president motion passes thank you okay um it is recommended that the members of the mono Township Board of Education approve wance Goldman Spitzer PA as the attorney of record for the Monroe Township School District for the six months beginning July 1st 2014 through December 31st 2014 as previously submitted the remains the rates remain unchanged from last year so move second Michelle and Tom comments or questions roll call Mr pres I have to abstain it's
140recommended yeah because of the um the charges filed with the U the commissioner that's that will L his um um yeah yes I think you should discussion concluded okay M armeno yes Mr Braverman yes Mr Chella I recuse myself Mr zareski is unable to vote according to legal advice Mr calman yes Mr nosin yes Mr poy yes Mr proso obain Mrs K Pano Madame board president motion passes it is recommended to the members of the Monroe Township Board of Education that the business administrator board secretary be authorized to prepare a RF P request for proposal for legal services for the 1415 school year so moved second won't be the 14 it would be the 14 the 14th calendar year it would be January let me correct that for the period beginning actually you have to
141do the RFP prior to the expiration of the contract so that would have to begin a little bit before that's why I left it as vague as possible for 1415 but it doesn't matter okay contct has to start on January 201 but the RFP process would begin immediately that hasn't have to do with the contract the contract starts January 1st so you don't need a date [Music] on okay um the motion resented it is recommended to the members of the Monro Township Board of Education that the business administrative board secretary be authorized to prepare a request for proposal and solicit proposals for Legal Services again any comments or questions seeing none roll call Miss armeno yes Mr Braverman Mr Mr cherella yes Mr zareski uh yeah no no well you could vote we cannot use
142it yeah yes feel good yeah it's probably a no but I'm questioning whether he can still engage in an RFP process but we'll we'll take that as yes Mr calman yes Mr noin yes Mr Po yes Mr proso Mrs kban mam board president motion passes I apologize um that's okay it's late sleepiness late tomorrow okay and and that concludes all of the um I guess the resolutions from closed session so we would go to public forum uh anyone from the public wishing to speak please come to the microphone and give your name and address for the record okay seeing no what will close public forum our next scheduled Board of Education meeting will be Wednesday July 23r 2014 7:00 p.m. mon tanip High School motion to adjourn Mr Mr proso all in favor opposed exstension
143meeting adjourned