001To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. New Jersey Open Public Meeting Law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interested is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provisions of this act, the board of education of the Morris school district in the county of Morris has caused notice of this meeting to be published by having the date, time, place there posted. Notice was mailed to the daily record tap into Morristown and those persons entities request notification. Mrs. Agu >> Mrs. Cole >> here. >> Mrs. Davidson >> here. >> Miss Murphy >> here.
002>> Mrs. Pipchuk >> here. >> Miss Perry >> here. >> Dr. Rodriguez >> here. >> Mr. Smith >> here. Mrs. Fota >> here. >> Mrs. Wall >> here. >> We're going to start this evening by doing the oath of office for our newly sworn members. We'll start with Mrs. Diana Agu. Hi. United States government not disqualified as a voter. disqualify your original marriage faithfully impartially and justly perform. Thank you. The next one is I do swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution. chosen and that I will flee to the government and this state and the authority of the people helping God. I'm Melissa. saw me that I qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member of a board of education that I am not qualified as a
003voter pursuant to RF 194-1 norqualified conviction of a crime or offense listed in NJFA 12-1 and that I will impartially and justly perform all duties of that office according to the best of my ability to that next. I do solemnly swear that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of New Jersey and I will bear faith and allegiance to the government established in the United States and this state under the army of the people. So help me. I begin to do solemnly swear that I accept the publications prescribed by law for the office of member board of education and that I have not disqualified as a voter pursuant to audit 194-1 nor disqualified due to conviction of crime or offense listed in NJA 18A 12-1 and I
004will thankfully impartially and justly perform all of the duties of the office according to the best of my ability. Imly swear that I support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the Church. I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same to the government established United States and the state under the authority of the people to help me. I Christina do solemnly declare that I possess the qualifications prescribed by law for the office of member board of education and I am not disqualified as RS4 nor disqualified NJA and I will faithfully partially adjust All the duties of that office. >> The next order of business, we'll open up the floor for nominations for the seat of board president. I'd like to nominate Pety Cole >> for president. >> Do we have
005a second? >> I'll second. >> Do we have any other nominations for board president? >> I nominate Vivian Rodriguez. >> Do we have a second? >> I'll second. >> All right. Do we have any other any other nominations? All right, we'll now take a vote in the order the nominations were received. So, first is for Miss Katie Cole for or president. Mrs. Agu, >> not sure what I'm supposed to say. >> So, we're taking a roll call vote for to appoint Mrs. K um I'm sorry, Mrs. uh Mrs. Cole to the seat of board president. So, we'll do a roll call vote. You would either and vote either yes, no, or abstain. Okay. >> So, you're first? >> No. >> Mrs. Cole? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Davidson? >> No. >> Miss Murphy? >> No. >>
006Mrs. Perry? >> Yes. >> Mrs. [snorts] Pipchuk? >> No. >> Dr. Rodriguez? >> No. >> Mr. Smith? >> No. >> Mrs. Boda? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Wall? >> Yes. Right. So, there's only four yeses. So, the motion does not pass. Uh, the next vote is for Dr. Vivian Rodriguez for the seat of President. Mrs. Au, >> yes. >> M. Cole, >> no. >> Mrs. Davidson, >> yes. >> Miss Murphy, >> yes. >> Miss Perry, >> no. >> Mrs. Pipchuk, >> yes. >> Dr. Rodriguez. >> Yes. >> Mr. Smith, >> yes. >> Mrs. Pota, >> no. >> Mrs. Wall, >> no. >> All right, we have six yeses. The motion passes. Congratulations, Mrs. >> Dr. Rodriguez. I see. >> Thank you. I just want to say a word of thank you to uh those who voted
007for me. Um, so now we're going to have the election for vice president. Can you hear me? Okay. My voice doesn't carry. Uh, so the meeting was is open for nominations for vice president of the board. >> I'd like to nominate Linda Murphy. >> Second. >> A second. Okay. Uh the vote please. >> Any other nominations? >> Oh, any other nominations? >> If none. >> Okay. Mrs. Aoo, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cole, >> yes. >> Mrs. Davidson, >> yes. >> Miss Murphy, >> yes. >> Miss Perry, >> yes. >> Mrs. Pelipchuk, >> yes. >> Dr. Rodriguez, >> yes. >> Mr. Smith, >> yes. >> Mrs. Fota, >> yes. >> Mrs. Wall, >> yes. Thank you all. I appreciate your support and your confidence in me. I'll do my best. >> So if you have appointments
008with the not with the table. >> Yes. >> No, I have. So appointments and delegates appointments by the president of al alternate delegate to the New Jersey school boards association and the Mars County School Boards Association. So the leg de delegate is the board president alternate delegate Linda Murphy and uh county alternate um Meredith Davidson appointment by the president of a member of the Mars County Educational Services Commission Board of Directors. I would like to nominate uh Meredith Davidson for that. An appointment by the president of a member to the Morris Educational Foundation. I would like to nominate Linda Murphy. Thank you for that. >> Motions 13. Next, we're going to move the reorg motions 5 to 13. And I'm going to ask different board members if they would kindly read it. Uh number five,
009Mr. uh Allen, uh would you please read the number five? Code of ethics. >> Code of ethics. Motion that the board of education adopt the code of ethics for schoolboard members as per the attach. And uh there's a code of ethics that all of us have on our desk uh on our table. And if you kindly read it and sign it and uh return it to Anthony. Great. Uh number six. Uh Diana, would you kindly read number six? Motion that the board of education approve Robert's rules of order as the official guide for procedure for the Morris School District. So 10 by one. We'll >> do all five together. All right. Next one. Number seven. Melissa, would you kindly read >> motion that all policies, rules, regulations, handbooks, and other legislative or regulatory action of
010this board enforce immediately prior to this reorganization meeting are hereby continued in force as if the board year had not changed. >> Great. And number eight, uh, >> thank you, please. >> Sure. >> Authorization motion that the assistant board secretary or in his absence the president or the vice president act as board secretary in the absence of the board secretary. >> Very good. And number nine, business administrator authorization. >> That's a long one. Motion that the board of education approve the business administrator/board secretary to approve bids, approve account transfers, pay bills, approve construction change orders, and approve travel in accordance with policies number 0147, 0147A, 344, and 4440. board member travel expenses, staff travel expenses, and NJSA 18A1-12 in between board meetings on an emergency basis with lists of such bids, transfers, payments, construction change
011orders, and travel subject to presentation and ratification at the next business meeting of the board. Okay. Number 10, uh, Linda, could you kindly >> number 10 is the superintendent's authorization motion that the board of education approve the superintendent of schools or her designate to employ school personnel to fill vacancies in existing job classifications as they may occur in between board meetings on an emergency basis with a list of those employed subject to presentation and ratification at the next business meeting of the board. >> Okay. Thank you. And number 11, maybe. Oh, no. Tina, sorry. Tina, could you please read number 11? >> Charges for reproducing public documents. Motion that the board of education approves the following rates for photocopying of public documents in compliance with NJSA 471A-1. And number 12, Katie, please. >> Meeting dates
012designation. Motion that the meetings of the board of education shall be held on Monday evenings unless otherwise noted as per attached scheduled meeting dates. The meetings will open at 6:30 p.m. and immediately adjourn to close session until 7:30 when the regular business meeting will begin. In the event that said schedule is hereafter revised, the board sec secretary is hereby directed to post and direct notice to the daily record and tap into Morristown at least 48 hours before the revised meeting date. >> And Meredith, could you please read number 13? Sure. Official newspaper motion that the daily record be designated as the official newspaper of the Morris school district. Other notices which require a broader circulation shall also be published in the star ledger. A second newspaper for the publication of board meeting dates shall be
013published in tap into Morristown. >> No. >> Okay. So now we take a vote. Is that correct? >> Need it first and a second. I move that we I move that we um approve all of the uh motions 5 through 13. >> I'll second. >> Very good. >> Any discussion on these? If none >> Mrs. Aum, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cole, >> yes. >> Mrs. Davidson, >> yes. >> Miss Murphy, >> yes. >> Miss Perry, >> yes. >> Mrs. Pipchuk, >> yes. >> Dr. Rodriguez. >> Yes. >> Mr. Smith. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Pota. >> Yes. >> Mrs. W. >> Yes. >> Um, with regards to the uh superintendence report that we miss. >> Thank you so much, Dr. Rodriguez. A happy and healthy new year to everyone. I'd like to welcome our new board
014members. And thank you for your service to the board. We're so thrilled to be working with you. And I'd like to thank Melissa and Tina. and welcome you back [laughter] uh as board members continuing your service. Congratulations uh to Mrs. Murphy and Dr. Rodriguez. We're all looking forward to a wonderful year here in the district and it's so wonderful to see such an outstanding turnout here this evening. Thank you for all coming and celebrating the start of a new year for us. We know it was difficult getting parking. We like to say that the high school's like 7-Eleven. We're open all the time and we're busy all the time. We've got the boys basketball team taking on Randolph and the fencing team is the largest in number. It's been in a tremendous number of years
015taking on Morris Nolles. Uh so it's always exciting days here. As we begin the new year, uh we always like to express gratitude for our colleagues here. We had some challenges in terms of facilities over the winter break and in the debt of cold where some of us were snuggling up at home. We had some frozen pipes that were taking out the heat in the sixth wing, sixth grade wing of Freeling Heisen Middle School. I'd like to thank Glenn Miller, our director of buildings and grounds, and especially our internal um treasures, uh Troy and Jeff, who are HVAC technicians. They worked entirely through the New Year holiday, and we all had a sigh of relief when they restored heat um to the entire sixth grade wing. And it was funny because when we got to
016Freeling Heisen today, the only thing we heard was it's really warm in here. [laughter] Um, so we're grateful to our tremendous B&G team who never rest and we thank them. uh very excited that this Friday we're beginning a new tradition here at the high school, a young alumni panel where we're having recent graduates of the high school in all different um professions speaking about their experiences in the college admission process, how Marstown High School prepared them so well for college and career. And it will be an opportunity for our high school students to spend time who uh with students who walk the halls just a few years before them and really help our students visualize themselves in new career pathways and um college process. Uh so we're looking forward to our next meeting which will
017be in short order same place Monday January 12th one week from today and the board will be receiving our annual audit report of the school budget. So again welcome back. Thank you for your tremendous partnership and support and we're excited to begin a new board uh year with our board team. Thank you. >> Thank you Dr. And uh uh for the uh president uh I'm sorry the president's report that's me the president. Um I would like to wish a happy new year to the my colleagues on the board administration all the educators uh parents and students uh of our wonderful Mars uh school community and um I just uh again all of you thank you for being here and supporting our board members our newly appointed board members. Thank you very much. That's my report.
018Oh, so now we go into public comments. Before we open the meeting to public comment, we wish to remind you that our meeting is now video recorded and publicly aired. While the board welcomes and encourages public comment, we ask that you be respectful, including in any comments you might make about staff. The board does not endorse any comments made by a speaker, nor will the board be held liable for any comments made by members of the public. The law prevents the board from speaking about specific students and about personnel matters. For this reason, the board the board will not answer any questions on these subjects. Finally, the board's policy limits each speaker to three minutes. We ask that you respect this policy at the time and the time of your fellow community members by concluding
019your comments once you reach 3 minutes. Public comment is now open for an hour or until public comments are complete, whichever comes first. At this point, I would like to invite any members of the public to come forward and provide your full name and address 71 Madison Street, Mtown, New Jersey. I want to congratulation all the newborn members and the old newborn members. >> I want to say that I'm here to support as a parent and I hope and wish that new board and all board will communicate with parents and community like us. So that's one of my really wish for the new board that we wanted to have more transparency, communication and meetings to bridge our community needs and support our you know in the classroom, outside the classroom and our community. Thank you
020for everything you do and for this huge job that you're taking in tonight and I want to thank you. Thank you. >> So uh good evening everyone. My name is Stephen Pelipchuk. I'm resident of 106 early street in Morstown. Um, just want to congratulate the board members again for being elected and uh, thank you for serving. I I know what it's like to run and I really appreciate anyone who's willing to step up. Um, I also want to say as the current town council president for Morstown, um, I'm really happy that we've had some great relationships with the school board and we've gotten some great things done on our recent tree planting efforts at the local schools and I look forward to having u continue to, you know, work together and get things done for
021our community. So, thank you. Any other comments? If none uh I'd like to close the portion of uh the public comments. Any new business board members? Business? If none like to close that section? I'll make a motion to adjourn this meeting. >> Motion to adjurnn. >> I'll second. We're all second. >> Oh, yes. Uh well, that concludes our meeting, but board members, do not forget we have time for uh pictures. >> Vivian, you have to say all in favor. >> All in favor? Yes. To close the meeting? >> I thank you. meeting is such a