001school year. Um, and then the state, what happens is state certified them. It's already gone up on our website. So, we've talked about it once already, but we need to refresh that with you again. The first page we have in here is our student safety data incidents. You'll see what's in here, our first semester is um consistent really with the start of the school year that we've had across the past few years. And then you'll also see time traveling for a second semester and the full year, which we won't be presenting to you until uh September time frame in the fall. Wanted to share that we have got a lot of things in place to help support our students. We find it super important to make sure that our students are connected. Um, so we
002have Tina will talk a lot about the programs that we have for our students to stay connected to school. We have our counseling interns that a lot of our families are able to take advantage of. Um, we have Dr. Geono and her role as director of school counseling and mental health services overseeing a lot of the components that help support our students um, including like our trail program. Uh, we have a lot of mentoring programs which you know we'll also talk about a little bit and our restorative practices. So you can see the birth semester data there and let me turn it over to S. Good evening again. Um so I will just be going over the PID data. So from September to May of this year we've had a total of 48 PIB investigations.
00321 uh were confirmed and that is uh they met the criteria of the state of care. They were reported by um various uh we have the majority of the reports by students uh which shows um a pretty good uh climate that students are feeling comfortable enough to um seek out an adult trusted counselor. I also we also have the location uh many of them eight uh were in the classroom that's because a lot of time they spend the majority of their time in the classroom and then we also broke down as you can see some of the motivating factors. Then we'll go through uh the reporting for uh the grades. So we have the official 23 24 grades. Each year the school's climate team has to selfassess themselves and evaluate how well uh the school
004um implemented the anti-bullying bill of rights act and we have a self assessment rubric that is given uh by the state and the tool contains uh eight focus areas and as you can see the overview of the official grades that we have been consistent. Uh all schools in the district met or exceeded all of the requirements and again it's important to note that it is a selfassessment rubric. Um so schools are assessing themselves and it seems that the lower grades uh they are consistent. They don't have many hip investigations, so they seem to be a little tougher on themselves when they're assessing. We have on our landing page the information and all of the district uh grades are on that page along with the list of the answers. going to take a moment. Um interventions
005regardless of a hit finding regardless if it is unfounded or founded we do provide interventions for students and you see the list there. Um and many times actually the majority of the time there is followup either from admin or counselors and police we're trying to um our students with who need adequate support they need. And then we have um the next page uh just consistent throughout the years is really a focus on you know training and education making sure that our staff is trained all of our students and then providing the education to our parents. And finally some of our program uh highlights throughout the district. Uh we do have um an array of programs that we provide and implement throughout the district ranging from group to individual counseling, restorative meetings, mentoring programs again trying
006to teach. It is the skills, the social emotional skills that they need. And finally really the um the focus of our work in the district is to um ensure that all students um have a sense of belonging and it's that we have to provide an inclusive uh community. So we do that through the various clubs and again um just wanted since I am the staff there at Freling Heisen um Bringing Heisen again uh received designation from the anti-defamation league uh for the second year as a note face for faith wanted to highlight that thank you Perfect. Okay, thank you. And um moving forward um just another gratitude for all of the displays of year a yearong work um around us and previously. Um and we'll jump right into committee reports. Um, our students are not
007here this evening, so we will move into curriculum. Thank you. So, the curriculum committee met on May 28th and we approved the following items. The April 30th meeting minutes, various field trips, which can be found under educational matters motion number three. Most of these field trips are for the summer plus program. Marstown High School summer guidance counseling hours were approved. This can be found under educational matters motion number four. The committee approved a formal agreement between the Mars County Juvenile Detention Center and the Mars School District for the 202526 school year concerning the use of title one part D funds for basic skills instructional classes at the detention center. This is educational matters motion number five. The committee approved curriculum writing this summer for the fourth year of life design at MHS. This is educational
008matters motion number six. Our last approval is for a K to5 instructional coach to provide strong educational support for teachers and professional learning. This is educational matters motion number seven. The curriculum committee welcomed Miss Sophia Kenny, director of guidance and program development, and Mr. Mark Manning, principal of Marstown High School, who presented the class of 2025 college and career outcomes. They also spoke about partnerships with universities and increased student engagement. Thank you to both of them for coming tonight to present this information to the rest of the board. Dr. Mucci and Matt Kryley shared the disproportionality action plan for the 202526 school year. This aims to reduce disproportionate suspensions and disciplinary actions among black students. Key strategies include implementing real-time suspension data monitoring, forming a district-wide committee, launching a targeted mentoring program, and providing ongoing
009professional development. Initial steps such as staff training and data analysis have already begun to support this work. New Jersey literacy framework, a guide to evidence-based literacy practices and universal screeners, was reviewed with particular attention to the recommendation of Dibbles as a preferred screening tool. The discussion also included the requirement to notify parents of screening results as well as the suggested interventions and supports for students based on those outcomes. The committee was informed about the resource parentance.org or which provides no cost access to mental health resources for families for parents and families. This will be added to our district website. Lastly, we discussed the CKLA rollout plan for the elementary grades over the course of the next few years. And I would just like to wish everyone a great last week of school and a wonderful
010and relaxing summer. Our next meeting is on Wednesday, July 9th. Linda, can you give us the finance? Sure. Um, I'm going to report on our finance committee meeting which took place on Monday, June 2nd, just a week ago. Um, and for those following along in the agenda, I'm starting at the back of the agenda. Uh, we uh uh at this time of year have a business reorganization meeting. Earlier in the year in January, we have um the board reorganization session. So in this uh if you look on page 58 under business matters you'll find u motion 48 which are annual approvers that approvals that pertain to the functions of the operational or business side of the district. Um that includes naming the board secretary the assistant board secretary or professional services including um legal audit
011and brokers. We have district coordinators and officers banking depositories tax schedules um etc. So there's a laundry list of um items under that motion that we are um approving uh in this meeting. And uh if we go to page 50, motion 29, uh this is one that uh authorizes a year-end transfer of reserve funds. Um this uh resolution gives authority to deposit funds in our capital and maintenance reserves at year end. Um, we have insurance renewals on page 49 under business matters motions 26 through 28. Um, and uh, some of these are still under negotiations, but we've uh, we've been pretty successful in getting um, uh, a good I'm going to say a sort of a cap on cost in some of these. So, for example, our long-term disability insurance has a 0% increase. Our
012student accident coverage is only a 3% increase. Uh some of the others are still pending and those include things like workman's comp, general liability, assurity bonds and so on. So that uh that will be um once those are negotiated, we'll report more on that. Um on page 43, um motion 8, uh this is a notice of annual contracts. The law uh is PL's uh 2015 chapter 47. This law requires the board of education to annually approve a um list of contracts that are issued through the current school year. So you'll see them listed there, all the vendors. And on page 44, motions 9 through 10, this is the board approval of state contracts. The again, this is an annual resolution that um authorizes us to use state contracts and cooperative purchasing agreements. in page 45.
013Uh, for whatever reason, we issue checks to people sometimes and they never cash them. So, uh, after many attempts to get them to cash them, we actually bring them back and put them in our general fund. So, that's on page 45, motion 11. Um, and thank you Joan for being so persistent trying to chase them down, but for whatever reason, they just never cash the check. Um uh so now we're going to uh uh before I go to the front of the agenda, I'll finish here in the back. We have uh on page 50 through 52 motions 30 through 34. And those are um uh some bid openings for things like lawn care, district computer repairs, refuge removal, boiler and hot water cleaning. Um there is another sale of a bus um item in there
014as well. So you can see the detail if you go there. Now to um go back to the front of the agenda, we are um doing a uh an amended um uh ESA amendment which allows us to reallocate program funds within our title grants. The number stays the same. The money just moves between the different title amounts is 1.9 million in total. Um uh motion nine on page 10. Uh we are um authorizing funding for what's known as optimal comp universal screeners. This is in the amount of $14,000 and change. So starting in the 2526 school year, alli school districts must use universal screeners to gauge student achievement in key literacy skills in alignment with NJS la. Um this group uh supports school districts in adopting and implementing highquality universal literacy screening tools. Uh so
015that money will help us with that. And um there is an item that we discussed in the meeting that doesn't require approval tonight. It's a uh certification of a corrective action plan that came up in our audit. Um and it found um a finding with regard to tracking extraordinary aid. Uh and the corrective action has already been in place been put in place on that. Um uh to switch horses here for a second. We're going to go to the facilities. Um there we ran into a issue. We had planned to turf the fields at uh Harter Road. Uh and after spending considerable time and a little bit of money to try to figure out how to do that with a D, we found out that buffers for wetlands and a endangered owl put the kibash
016on the whole plan. So instead of um instead of turfing harder road, which isn't feasible now, uh our new architect has come up with an alternative to turf fields at FMS in space that's in front of the school, not in back of the school. Um, and that will support basically all field sports with the exception of football. So, baseball, softball, soccer, lacrosse, field hockey will all be able to be played there in a very creative design, I might add. Um, with the way that the architect uh put all those together and we'll be able to play some concurrent games, um, both sexes, uh, male and female sport uh, sports teams. Um there is a bit of a price point differential and um our business administration staff are in the process of seeking additional funding to
017be able to move that forward. Um from a summer construction standpoint, we're on track with all of that. We have an application to the state for um for funds to do boiler and light replacements at Woodland. That's motion 46. Um we have some uh new roofs going in at Hillrest and u the high school, new security vestibules at the high school, the middle school and Woodland. Um FMS had a boiler incident. So we have to replace uh one of the boilers there as well as work on the elevator. And in the high school, there's going to be considerable work done over the summer in the atrium with new new ceiling, uh new flooring. It's going to have a whole new spiffy look when you uh see it at the beginning of next year. And then
018uh finally, from a purchasing standpoint, we're um authorizing funds for a large per purchase of band instruments. Those band instruments are going to be going to uh the high school, the middle school, and all uh 35 elementary schools. Um from a transportation standpoint, we uh are approving in this uh agenda motions 22 and through 24 our annual transportation jointures. Uh we uh we take in about $130,000 for field trips and athletic trips with Morris Plains and non-public schools with Morris Planes and PET being our largest. But we also provide regular routes to a number of schools as well. And I just have to again do a shout out to our transportation department and um Greg Zumski who runs that for us. He does a fabulous job. And lastly, we um have taken ownership of a
019new 54 passenger fully aironditioned bus. It's going to make its debut on Wednesday of this week. I think uh we'll be taking uh students to the track championships at Pasonic High School. Um and the timing is ideal because when we looked at the temperatures last, it was supposed to be pretty hot that day, so the students are going to enjoy riding in air conditioned comfort. Um and that bus also has a luggage compartment, by the way, so they have room for their their feet, too. Um we looked at some other things that were more internal to the committee itself, looking at critical and statutory dates. our committee uh set of responsibilities and then we did some updates to for educational purposes for the board related to fund balance, bank cap and debt service so people
020can understand um how that looks. And our next meeting for finance is July 14th and also everybody's excited for the end of school. My grandkids are beside themselves. So countdown is time for sure. Um but can you give us a first? Sure. So HR met on June 9th and um we went over, you know, the typical comingings and goings, lots of hiring happening, appointments for the summer. I just wanted to highlight a couple of things. Uh we're hoping to appoint a new communications person within the next two weeks which will open the possibility for us to be doing climate surveys in the district which is exciting. Susan already mentioned the instructional coaches that we're going to be hiring which is also very exciting. And between tonight's meeting um and the next meeting we're hoping to
021appoint our new principles for TJ and for Woodland. And our next meeting is on July 15th. Okay. Um Beth, can you give us an update on policy? Yes, absolutely. So, uh the policy committee last met on June 2nd, which was uh moved from May 30th. So, I just want to again thank Dr. Mucci, Dan, Michelle, and the um policy committee for being so flexible. I appreciate that. Um so what we did uh basically is we continued discussion um for the purpose of board member meeting in attendance of policy 0145 board member resignation and removal. Um utilizing some suggestions and the knowledge of council. we were able to outline a rough draft of procedures and we will continue to uh work with our attorneys to review and uh further clarify um the language until we get
022it just right. So that's an ongoing um discussion and work. Uh then for district review, we cons uh continued our policy review um specifically of section the 3000s which is our teaching staff members. Um there were oh gosh I forgot to count in advance. Uh no a lot a lot uh that you will see on the agenda a lot of uh policies that we reviewed only one had suggested suggested updated language from Strauss Esme which um Dr. Mucci and the committee uh agreed upon. So, the entirety of these policies were reviewed and approved uh for first read this evening. Then we also, as always, uh reviewed our district and individual school counts reports as of May 30th, 2025, as well as our K5 section counts. Our next meeting is July 11th. Um Meredith, I know
023we're meeting this week. Did you have any updates for Silver Net? Um we're meeting we're meeting Wednesday. No, probably not. Okay. Um we met a couple of weeks ago. Um one main topic as part of our efforts to govern more efficiently and effectively. We continued our process to review and define each committee's functions and duties um and create calendars that uh board uh committee chairs can use to guide the committee um annually. Um some of the things we looked at in terms of putting on the calendars to, you know, make sure we um uh cover topics or looking at a staff demographic report uh annually, uh approving curric curriculum rewrites over the summer, and of course things like the budget that we approve in the spring. Those are just examples. Our goal is to finish
024this process by the August retreat and uh present to you all the calendars and the um the the formal description of each committee's functions and duties. Um we also went over a few things like board trainings. Um again these are important uh ways that board members can improve how we govern. Um, I would just direct um you all up here to see the governance minutes for upcoming sessions. I will also send them out by email. Um, a lot of uh New Jersey School Boards Association webinars are available um to to look at when you have time. Um, we looked at process uh and timelines to update our norms and procedures. We reviewed our um orientation packet. And last but not least, um I just want to call your attention to our retreat on the 12th
025of August and we are meeting in two days on Wednesday, our next governance meeting. Thanks. You guys can give us an update for Morris PL. Yes. Uh so Morris Plans last met May 27th. It was a pretty short meeting. We highlighted a lot of the end of the year activities. I'm sure we all have busy calendars with um we gave an update on our strategic uh strategic plan. As I mentioned last time, we kicked it off with a public survey. We closed the survey and the administration team is in the process of compiling analyzing those results and they're going to be presented out the next board meeting which is tomorrow. Um, and I think the only thing to mention is uh what Linda mentioned. We also already approved the uh updated transportation agreement between Morris
026Plains and Morris School District. Thank you. Okay. Um, with that we will move in to public comment. 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 will not answer any questions on these subjects. Finally, the board's policy limits each speaker to 3 minutes. We ask that you respect this policy in the time of your
027fellow community members by concluding your comments once you reach 3 minutes. Public comment is open for an hour or until public comments are complete, whichever agrees first. At this point, I'd like to invite any members of the public to come forward and please provide your full name and address. Good evening. Uh Nancy Suta Burns, 18 Brandy Wine Terrace, Marstown. Uh there were two questions that I had. Uh though this may border on the personnel issues that wouldn't be discussed, though it isn't really a negative, it's really more inquisitive. Um the agenda reflects the changes to teachers within the district. So perhaps a fourth grade teacher is now teaching fifth grade. So there is there seems to be a swap of science teachers between Freland Heisen and and the high school and I wanted to know
028to whom I can request some information about that what the reason is for that taking place perhaps the need for a subject to be brought into Freing Heisen and then Fingen to be sent here. So, if there's someone else to whom that should be directed, I'd like to get that information. Um, the other question I had, and this may have been addressed in the past because it touches on facilities and everybody was very excited about new air conditioning in a lot of the classrooms. Well, there have been questions about an extension of that. So, I don't know if that is part of the plan going forward, if it can't be done in certain classrooms because of wiring, condition of the building, age of the building. So those are the two matters that uh I wanted
029to get some information about. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So in response to the first question uh we have resequenced science uh so that we're beginning with biology for the incoming freshmen. So as a result for the next two years we'll be offering biology in grades nine and grades 11 uh while we move through the new science sequence that can impact assignments as we need more teachers with specific discipline in the biology area here and as we're building the connection to the middle school for more details on a particular uh question related to staffing in science you can reach out to Brian Young I can give you his contact information if you don't have it. Uh we are continuing over each summer to phase in more air conditioning units. We had the massive air
030condition and then we had the mildest fall ever and we have rain and no heat. So I guess if we keep putting in air conditioning, we'll keep having really mild temperatures and we'll have another climate change. Uh but our intention is to move on to this floor of the high school and continue to increase the air conditioning units at each of the elementary schools. So we do have um the next phase slated for this summer. Okay. A quick followup to uh the answer to your to the first question about biology. If the teacher being transferred to Freenheisen was also a an adviser for a club, can that teacher still maintain that advisory capacity or does that go away because they're now in a different school? So, we have um many teachers in the district who
031work in the middle school and coach or run clubs in the high school and we also have teachers at the elementary school. So, it's one of the great things about the district. Your opportunity to work mentoring or lead in clubs or sports isn't regulated to just the school where you attend. So, we currently have many who work in one school coach and run clubs in another school. No problem. Come on up. We'll get this fixed for you. Name's John Dailyaly and I live in Lawrence Plains, 19 Washington Avenue. and I hate public speaking, so it's a lot for me to be standing here right now. Um, first thing I would like to do in front of the camera is thank Officer Little for what he did on Thursday, May 15th. He's a hero in my
032book. Um, I'm just confused about some things, so I should put my glasses on. You know, the the school is pretty good with sending out emails like when there's a drill or something. I just don't understand why it took 5 days for parents to get a letter that there was a loaded gun, a defaced loaded gun that came into the school. Um, just don't understand that the principal's letter said that the arrest was so brief and routine in nature that no notification was made to the parents. Um, is it routine for a loaded handgun to be brought into a school? I I don't I don't understand that comment. Um, the letter also said, "If there had been a credible threat to the school community, you would have been you would have heard from us immediately.
033there's no credible threat. I mean, you have this incident, right? Then you have, if you're saying this is an incredible threat, you have this incident, you have a credible threat, and then to me, the next step is you have an active shooter. Okay. What where's the line between what happened to make this a credible threat? Could someone answer that for me? I I I don't get it. I know people, you know, I'm a parent. we know people. We've talked to people. We know police officers. We know people who work at this school. And they're saying, "Well, the the the person who came in didn't have any intention of shooting anyone. Um he was just there to get a transcript." But I think I know what happened. You know, up I I had to bring my
034son his lunch the next day. And usually, you know, you go to the camera, you get buzzed, you go to the desk, put his name on his lunch. on Friday the 16th, they wouldn't let me in the school. So I said to my son, "What what happened?" He, "Oh, someone was selling drugs at school." But things changed. So I know he came to the the outside and he had to say something to get into the school. Oh, I'm here for a transcript. So they buzzed him in and then the whole situation went down. So, so that was my my main question is how do you how does it get to be more of a credible threat? And people are saying he wasn't giving any damage, but that's hindsight. We didn't you don't know that before.
035So, what's going I know you're going to put the vestibule in. What about metal detectors? What else can be done to keep this from happening again? I mean, we we all get that news flash every now and then. Judy in Florida, shooting in Connecticut. We don't want that here, right? How what else can we do? So, that's basically what I what I wanted to say. And I know you you were quoted in the Morristown Green saying that the arrest happened outside the school, which I get, but he was probably I don't know. Well, I don't know the details, but he was probably put in handcuffs inside the school by the security and then taken out when the police came and arrested. So, I found your statement a little confusing. Like it it made it sound
036like he never made it into the school, but I think he did, right? That's one of my other questions. Did he get into the school? I just wanted to confirm. I think the principal's letter said that he made it to the security booth. So the the other thing that caught my attention was the mayor said officer Little's swift recognition and appropriate response undoubtedly contributed to maintaining the safety of the school community. So you know I was thinking about the SATs and everything like they they give you in the English test section they give you a paragraph and they what do you infer from that? Well, I'm inferring from this that if Officer Little didn't recognize him and do what he did, there would have been a very unsafe situation in the school, which contradicts what
037the principal was saying that there was no credible threat. So, the mayor is inferring one thing, the principal saying another, and that's why I'm standing here. I'm I'm just confused, and I guess I just I just want to I'm concerned. I mean, but we all love our kids. This was very upsetting and to not be told right away is the main thing. And just what else can we do to protect our kids? Thank you for listening. Thank you, Mr. Dailyaly. Thank you for taking the time to speak to us and I share many of your frustrations in that I also read the mayor's comment on the news as everyone else did. I am a parent myself. I understand your concerns, specifically your concerns about the timing of our communication. We understand that in situations involving
038something like this uh with student safety, we want our communication to be clear and as quick as possible. In this case, our ability to communicate was significantly delayed by a lack of timely cooperation and response from law enforcement. Well, that created a challenging situation for us. A not knowing if the weapon or police was in the school or not or if it was discovered in the arrest on campus. That was part of the delay. Making sure that we had our information accurately. In conversations with uh members of the public, community, parents following this incident, it's very clear that what we should have done was sent a communication right away that indicated there was police activity on the campus, that it was an ongoing investigation and that we would provide more information when we had it
039instead of waiting to get the accurate information from the police regarding the weapon and the various versions of the story that were circulating. So clearly that's an area where we could have done better. We should have sent out the note right away, explained to you that we didn't have all the details rather than waiting to compile the details with the cooperation of the police. I accept responsibility for that. I apologize and I clearly will tell you that lesson learned. We will certainly give out just the information that we can right away which is this is an ongoing investigation and we'll share more information when we have it. A series of your questions really focused on like what are we doing now? And one of the things that I can say that I truly appreciate about
040working with this community with our parents and our faculty and the police is the willingness to say how can we help and how can we tackle this together. Uh, thank you for approaching your question with that level of seriousness. And what I would say to that is um, on October, excuse me, on May 30th, we meet we scheduled a meeting with the chiefs of police from Morristown, Morris Township, and Morris Plains along with the Morristown Director of Public Safety. We had a very productive conversation. We focused on improving transparency and collaboration on avoiding situations where we have multiple um pieces of information being shared via social media from mayor's office, from police, from school and making sure instead that our communication is united and clear. We are instituting quarterly meetings with all law enforcement agencies.
041We're enhancing the use of our system like you said when you came in. how you have to buzz in, get your label. Just making sure that we have everything that we can to make sure that the Raptor system is helping us work through not just visitor notification, but also work through uh control for our buildings and public access, formalizing our protocols with the police, making sure that the police have access to all of our security cameras so they can assist us in keeping our building safe. Uh we've also added safety planning around different events uh that bring large numbers of people to our schools and we have a plan uh in light of the vestibules to create new um security arrival and departure process for our students. I too am very grateful for officer Little's
042work. uh very great connection with the police department and I think the main thing we have to work on is improving our communication together as a group and making sure that we don't cause confusion by sending conflicting messages or different messages from different agencies. Um I do appreciate the way that you approach this and I'm very grateful for any additional suggestions that you have. Members of the public, parents are always welcome to join our school-based school security teams. We have parents on each of those. As the school year begins, we always ask for volunteers to serve on those committees. They work quarterly and a lot of what you brought up in conversation. Asking those questions are things that we work through together with our school security team. So, I appreciate your comments. Happy to speak
043to you more one-on-one, too, and go through some of your other questions. Thank you. Good evening. My name is Robert Fraser. I live at 37 Chimney Ridge Drive in Morris Township. Uh just a continuation on the same topic. Uh obviously I have some some of the same concerns as the gentleman that spoke before me. Um, I was a police officer for 25 years, so I have a little more knowledge than maybe the average citizen. But, uh, first and foremost, safety is paramount for my children. Um, all the children of the school as well as the teachers and the employees. And I think they and their families have a right to know uh, when something like this happens immediately. And 5 days is too long. And it really seemed like it only uh, was created and
044drafted after it grew legs on Facebook. um that kind of seemed like it didn't hence the fiveday uh delay. Had had it not hit Facebook, would have it waited another day or another week or another month or maybe we would have never known about it. Um transparency like Dr. Mucci said is is very important but you need to do it accurately and swiftly. 5 days is uh inexcusable. My concern as a parent um is that Dr. Mucci and her staff and her administrators are coming up with these great ideas now after this incident happened. But it's 2025 and why this isn't already in place is not acceptable and somewhat inexcusable. And as members of the board of ed, you're our representatives to hold them accountable. All right, for the safety of everybody, the the the
045staff here, the students, and everybody else that's that comes in this building. And uh just a big concern of mine would be how it was handled completely. Um, you know, with having two sons here and having a lot of my boys friends in this school system and a lot of people that my wife and I know, it just uh it's very alarming and and very concerning. And I hope uh I hope this topic is still fresh in discussion when you guys have your private executive sessions because um and we know the way it was handled would be an F and there there's just no other way of looking at that. you know, if everything else that happens, you know, it's it's a different of opinions, but but like I said in the beginning, safety is
046paramount and how it's been handled and what was in place prior and now we're discussing what we're going to do to move forward is great, but it's too late. It could have it could have ended really bad that day. And uh I don't have anything further to say. I just hope uh all the members of the of the board of ed are are on the same page or at least the majority is really has this as as much of a concern as as I do and I'm sure a lot of residents uh in the school community. Thanks for your time. Thank you. Hi, my name is Heather Clemens Razer. I'm the wife of the person that just spoke, 37 Chimney Ridge Drive. I do have a question on the residence resolution that was brought up.
047I do see here in the notes that there were about 17 people that were notified that they are no longer eligible for free education in the Morristown School District. And I wanted to see if you could speak a little bit more about what that means, what that looks like, and what else is being done moving forward for those that are not residents of Morristown but are attending our school. How was that found out I guess and and what types of steps are being taken to move forward on that same note to ensure that the people that are on this school or people that reside in Morristown and Morris Township or Morris Plains whoever is eligible to attend the schools. Thank you. So um the motion would you like to provide some clarification for the motion?
048Thank you. you are parents and students that are in preschool four uh four year old classes, seventh grade, fifth grade or eighth grade classes, you've got many many notices from our school messenger, sometimes even through our mail asking you to provide us updated with res. So what that means is you're providing us information that proves that you are living and resigning within our staff. We also have a residency specialist. So, our families that um need somebody to come and visit as an extra step to help them, uh they also are Spanish speakers can help us support all of our family. The families that are on the motion, our families have provided us no information to further their living. So, we've been working with them probably two or three months now, maybe more. Um reaching out
049to them in multiple ways. say how can we help you see agend there still is time for them to provide us information we want them to give us the information to be living here but if they're not we're following their process they're not policy that means they're not able to attend schools in our districts and working through the due process step I guess the other question just as a follow to that is what was it that triggered this to come about was there something that was seen or known or the same process that we're doing for those specific grade levels and if both people that are not living in the district are going to share that with us soon be looking into all of those and and thank you. Um and I would just also
050add that the those thresholds are in addition to make sure that those are in place not just districtwide but at those threshold levels. So 8ighth grade, second grade begin. Okay. If there is no one else, um, may I just I think the clarification is there's no impetus for it. It's part of your daily work. And how do you maintain residency accuracy in a district that goes back for years? There's nothing that caused it. It's what you do as the administration of the school district. Correct. Yes. Thank you. Um Okay. If there's no one else, we will close public comment um and move on to business matters. As the appointed representative of the sending Morris Plains School District to the Morris School District Board of Education, I would like to clarify that my votes on tonight's
051business agenda items will relate only to those items that are identified as applicable districtwide to grades preK through 12 or to the high school grades 9 through 12. I am abstaining from voting on any agenda items pertaining solely to the elementary and middle schools grades preK to 8. Okay. Moving minutes motions one and two. Second. Any discussion? Okay. Mr. Lloyd, yes. Mrs. Murphy, yes. Mrs. Pedalino, yes. Mrs. Perry, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mrs. Pota, yes. Mrs. Wall, yes. Mrs. Davidson, yes. Mrs. Cole, yes. Moving policy motions one through three. I'll second. Thank you. Any discussion? Okay, please call the roll. Mr. Lloyd, yes. Mrs. Murphy, yes. Mrs. Pelino, yes. Mrs. Perry, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Miss Mrs. Spota, yes. Mrs. Wall, yes. Mrs. Davidson, yes. Mrs. Cole, yes. Moving educational matters motions one through nine
052with a revised motion number nine. Second. Thank you, Stephen. Any discussion? Okay, please call the RO. Mr. Lloyd, yes. Miss Murphy, yes. Mrs. Pelino, yes. Mrs. Perry, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mrs. Spota, yes. Mrs. Walt, yes. Mrs. Davidson, yes. Mrs. Cole, yes. Moving people's services motions one and two. Second. Thank you, Melissa. Any discussion? Okay, please call the RO. Mr. Lloyd, yes. Miss Murphy, yes. Mrs. Penelino. Yes to motion number one. Abstain from motion number two. Mrs. Perry. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mrs. Pota. Yeah. Mrs. Wall. Yes. Mrs. Davidson. Yes. Mrs. Cole. Absena. Number one. And yes. Number two. Moving human resources motions 1 through 34 with a revised motions number 2 5 7 8 11 18 28 and 30. Thank you. Any discussion? Okay, please call the roll. Mr. Lloyd, yes. Miss Murphy, yes.
053Mrs. Pedalino, yes. Mrs. Perry, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mrs. Pota, Mrs. Wall. Um, abstaining to motion 11 and 32. Yes. To all others. Mrs. Davidson. Yes. Mrs. Cole. Yes. Moving business matters motions 1 through 48 with revised motion number 47. Second. Thank you. Any discussion? Okay. Please call. Mr. Lloyd. Yes. Miss Murphy. Yes. Mrs. Pelino. Yes. Mrs. Perry. abstain to 23. Yes to the rest. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mrs. Biota. Yes. Mrs. Wall. Yes. Mrs. Davidson. Yes. Mrs. Cole. Dana. Number five. Yes. To all of us. Any new business? Can I get a motion to adjurnn? I'll make a motion to second. A second. Thank you. All in favor I Yep.