001Time is now 7 o'clock and I'll call this meeting to order. Mr. Gibbs, will you please read the statement of compliance? In compliance with the Open Public Meeting Act, public law 1975, chapter 231, notice of this meeting has been properly advertised in the daily record in Suburban Trends. Its agenda has been posted at the appropriate locations and a copy has been filed with Pquanic Township Clerk. Thank you. Please call the RO. Mr. Bloomer, here. Mr. Cesi here. Mrs. Espazito here. Mr. Gon here. Miss Ao here. Mr. Mcweeny here. Mr. Pompeo is not here right now. Mr. Senic here. And Mrs. Chenton is absent. We have a quorum. Thank you. Will everyone please stand for the flag salute? All right, good evening everyone. Welcome to our May 12th workshop meeting. Last week was teachers appreciation week
002and the board would like to express our gratitude and thanks to our outstanding teachers and staff. Also, as testing continues, we want to remind our students to continue to try your best. And last, the board negotiations committee will meet with the PTEA again on 519, which I think is next Monday uh for our fifth meeting. And that's it for me. Pass it over to Dr. Poris. That was quick. I wasn't ready. Um and since I'm not ready, I'm going to send it right over to the Zagglers for the student report. Thank you. Good evening, everyone. It's really hard to believe how quickly the school year is drawing to a close. PTHS students and staff continued to work hard to finish the school year strong. Last week, the district celebrated teachers appreciation week. There was a
003variety of activities throughout the week to recognize teachers. At PTHs, teachers were treated to a variety of food themes each day from breakfast by Pmptonian to snack carts and ice cream truck and a popcorn machine. Thank you to all the HSA for their support of the teachers as well. AP testing is halfway completed. Students are working incredibly hard and are looking forward to hearing about successful results in July. Congratulations to the cast and crew of Mean Girls who put on three great shows. The summer play triyouts will be happening next week. The show is Bonnie and Clyde. Spring sports teams are getting ready for the state tournament over the next several weeks. Congratulations to Derek Seiel who took second overall in the boys golf group 1 sectional tournament with a score of 72. Derek played
004today in the group of in the tournament of champions. Congratulations to Caitlyn Zgler on recording 100 career points in lacrosse. And congratulations to Henny Strubal who won the dis discus champ competition at the NJACK tournament last week. This was Henry's third in individual title in this event. Emily will finish the rest. Fall sport fall sport interest meetings will be held on May 20th during unit lunch. Registration for fall sports open up that same day. On May on May 1st, PTHs recognized the members of class of 2025 who made who made their college decisions. It was a proud moment for the seniors. We wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors. The seniors are gearing up for prom, which will be which is going to be held at the Grove in Cedar Grove on
005May 29th. PTHs is proud to announce the valictorian and the saludiatoran of the class of 2025. Ivana Van Ringan and is the class valictorian and Kate Dunham is the class saludiatoran. They will be recognized at a future board meeting. Student council elections have begun for next year. Students are campaigning this week and elections will be be happening next week. Thank you for your time and have a great night. And before we continue, at the last meeting, we had mentioned that uh Emily had 100 career points in lacrosse and Caitlyn, you had 100 draw controls. So, I know that you congratulated your sister and I think that you congratulated her back, but the board would like to congratulate you both and give you a round of applause. and tell them tell them what the lacrosse record
006is this year. Our record right currently is eight and two and we're looking to win the conference. We're two wins away from stealing the conference. And And when's the last time that happened? 2018. So So you're saying that's good. I'm saying I was surprised they even remembered the last time it happened. Oh, keep it up. We're really proud of you and well done with the presentation too with the report. All right, I I have a few few updates of my own to provide. Um first off to echo what was said. Um hope everybody enjoyed teacher appreciation week and also that all the mothers had a wonderful Mother's Day yesterday. As somebody who's married to a teacher and a mother, I'm glad I remembered to mention both. So that was good for me. Um just a
007few updates from what I've been working on. Um in terms of shared services, I'm happy to report that our partnership with Pmpton Lakes, Bootin, Montville, and Lincoln Park should produce some revenue for the district in the upcoming school year. Granted, we're aware that things could change, but right now it looks like by combining one of our routes for special education added placement could expect to bring in revenue between 35 and $55,000. That's pretty exciting. I know um Mr. Dr. Gibbs is working with our transportation coordinator on trying to find an even bigger um savings um in terms of more efficient routes for the um academy placements. Uh on the 30th, Mr. Senic and I attended the Mars County Council of Education Associations Friend of Education event. Um, it was really nice night and we enjoyed
008seeing staff members from Quanic playing an important role in a ceremony that brought in a wide range of political figures and also celebrated people who've made great contributions to education throughout our county for kindergarten enrollment and placement. Um, there should have been something in the elementary school newsletters on Friday. Um, and we're sending something out to kindergarten, enrolling kindergarten parents tomorrow, just reminding them that if you know of anybody who has not yet signed up for kindergarten, please do so with a great degree of urgency as we want to make sure we can follow the attendance plan. Um, if people sign up after we've already announced placement, you're just going to get shuttled to whichever school has the third kindergarten. So, it's really, really important to get that done. And we do have our orientation
009taking place on June 5th and that will be the same date for all of the schools assuming that's a that's a Thursday. It is a th it's a Thursday in June. I should make sure you get the date right. It is June 5th. Uh AI the A team had AI team had its final meeting of the school year last week. Mr. Sheay presented a summary of what the group accomplished. Our next steps are to complete the AI plan which will inform the policy that will we're looking to have in place for the start of the school year. And I'll speak a little bit more about that uh during the policy period. Uh on May 7th, the Mars County Schoolboard Association um held its meeting which four of us attended virtually. Given the sinkhole situation, it
010was a very good idea. But our Sam Sesi was recognized for his 10 years as a board member and he was also recognized for having achieved master board member certification. Congratulations Sam. We always knew you were certifiable. Thank you. And then our unsung hero Shawn Moore was also recognized with a $1,000 scholarship um from All American Mechanical and the Rotary Club of the Skylands. And then finally, a couple other things coming up. NJSA conference. Uh that's the superintendent association that's taking place in Atlantic City starting on Wednesday and going all the way through Friday. Uh I'm excited to attend though I'm not really a huge fan of Atlantic City. looking to get additional insight into how districts are managing AI whether through policy implementation um however else as well as how there how some of
011our friends throughout the state are managing staffing um and more perhaps most importantly addressing student measurable student learning growth and then to echo something that girl said and that Mr. Senic said as well, we are continuing with AP testing and I'm really happy to hear that our students are putting forth a great effort on it. We still have some more NJSLA testing as well. Um, not only at the middle school but also with the science test coming up. And as far as the science assessment, I will say if somebody tells you that the test doesn't matter, ask them if you have to put your name on it. And if and you do. If you're putting your name on it, then it definitely matters. It also matters for the district's overall performance report. But most importantly,
012I hope that our students um show the same pride in their work that they've been showing through AP testing as well as the ELA and math testing. And uh looking forward to some great outcomes. And that concludes my report. Uh just to piggyback on that, we said it at the last meeting, but Dr. Poris also repeat received the certification of a new board member certification. So congratulations to you as well. Thank you. I I got recognized for doing what I was supposed to do. Thank you. Mr. Mr. Gibbs, you have a report. Yes. Good evening. On May 6th, the school district received an open request for staff information. The request was honored in accordance with state regulations on May 12th. On May 9th, Mr. Senic, Dr. Poris, and I visited an office that will be
013coming up for sale on Newark, Bumpton Turp. Uh it was a dentist's office that is currently abandoned and is in need of a lot of work. Uh it will further it will be uh further discussed at the discussion portion of the FFA section on tonight's board agenda. On May 12th, I had a meeting with Eric Corman, a representative to discuss the new lunch prices for the next school year. The new lunch prices reflect a meal increase of 3.6% for the high school and middle school and 3.2% for the elementary schools. The meal prices will be provided to the board for approval prior to the May 27th board meeting. The school district has an opportunity to access an SDA grant in the amount of $101,000 for either emergent capital projects or maintenance projects. More information will
014be provided at the FFA discussion portion of the meeting. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Gibbs. Uh that brings us to our first opportunity for public comment. I'll open the floor to any member of the public that would like to speak on any agenda item. No. And being that there is no one here, I'm going to close this section and move on to approval of our action items. And up first is PMC. And since Miss Shen is not here, I'm going to ask Mr. Sesi to please move PMC. Yes. I'd like to move PMC 211-25 through PMC 226-25. Second. Any question or discussion? Mr. Gibbs, please call the RO. Mr. Bloomer, yes. Mr. Mr. Sesi, yes. Mr. Giten, yes. Uh, Miss Ao, yes. Mr. Mcweeny, yes. Mr. Pompeo is not here. Mrs. Menton is absent.
015And Mrs. Espazito, yes. And Mr. Senic, yes. Motion carries. All right. And with that, Miss Barbosza, you're officially in the district. So, welcome to the district. And if you'd like to say anything, go right ahead. Thank you so much for this opportunity. Board members, Dr. Portoris, Miss Vansickle, anyone else. I was about to say TV land, but it's not TV. We're live stream land over there. Um, my name is Jean Barbosza. I am so grateful and and thankful for this opportunity to join your very dedicated and loving community. I I felt from and and I had said this to you. I felt from the very very first round. I said, "Here's a group of people that love what they do, admins and teachers, who care about their students, and they prioritize people first." There's a
016lot of work to do in education. We we have a lot to do no matter what district you are from. But to be able to say we value we value people, we value those who want to be leaders and we want to listen to everyone who's part of this educational web. That is a beautiful thing. Uh I come to you very excited with 22 years plus in education. I started out as a high school math teacher. I'm very much math nerd. Uh but besides that, I I I enjoyed being uh the head coach of the girls volleyball program, an assistant director, vocal and acting coach, chaperone advisor. I was even duct taped to a wall for a fundraiser. I I I say yes to everything. I got to go all in. And as an administrator,
017I mean, I left the classroom kicking and screaming because I wasn't expecting it. But to be called into leadership was definitely a gift. and I was a K I have been a K12 math, science, STEM, business, computer science, etc. supervisor um small district and I have I have to say that besides any title or job I possibly could have, being a mentor and a guide and a resource and a cheerleader is what I've appreciated the most. And that goes for the staff and the students. Um, and I continue helping inspire other people by being an adjunct professor in the educational leadership program at Moner State, teaching them about the CIA, curriculum, instruction, and assessment. So taking a step July 1st into this position science and STEM is very exciting because I believe that this is
018the subject area that could be the vehicle for every other subject but it's something that students can throw themselves into. They could be creative, innovative, they could thrive and in all you know in all the rounds I spoke about my two daughters. I have two elementary daughters. They love making slime as much as everyone else. But the thing that my oldest said to me is, "Well, mommy, I love science the best because anything can happen. Anything's possible." And so that's the type of feeling I want to help inspire and get into those classrooms K to 12. We need to ignite curiosity again because somewhere along the way we lose our ability or interest in just looking up at the sky and wondering what's out there. And so to start with a foundation elementary, keep them
019going, get them get hands-on design challenges so that they have this motivation and momentum so by the time they get to high school, we're populating those academy programs with some really strong and motivated students. So I thank you for this opportunity. I look forward to doing as much as possible with your amazing team and community. Thank you. All right. Thank you and welcome. All right. Up next is CIS and I'm going to ask Mrs. Espazito to please move the item under CIS. I'd like to move CIS 84-25. Second. Any question or discussion? Mr. Gibbs, please call the role. Mr. Bloomer, yes. Mr. Sesi, yes. Mr. Giten, yes. Miss Ao, yes. Mr. Mr. Mcmey. Yes. Mr. Pompeo is absent. Mr. Chentton is absent. Mrs. Espazito. Yes. And Mr. Zenic. Yes. Motion carries. All right. Thank you.
020Up next is FFA. Mr. Bloomer, would you please move FFA? Yes. I'd like to make a motion to move FFA 165-25 and FFA 166-25. Second. Any question or discussion? Mr. Gibbs, please call the RO. Mr. Bloomer, yes. Mr. Sesi, yes. Mr. Giddon, yes. Yes. Miss Ao, yes. Mr. Mcweeny, yes. Mr. Pompeo is absent. Mrs. Shenton's absent. Mrs. Espazito. Yes. And Mr. Senn. Yes. Motion carries. All right. That brings us into our workshop. And first up is PMC with two items to discuss. Staffing update and then the communication goals for the district for the 2526 school year. All right. Thank you. Just going to jot down one quick note. on the momentum. All right. First item is staffing. Um you may have heard that we um have hired a new science supervisor. We did. Yes. Okay.
021And she brings great energy. So we're we're really excited. So So welcome to our team. Welcome to our community, Zor Rosa. Um and another exciting thing we that um we have which will likely appear on the second agenda in May is that through a shared service agreement with North Halen. We still have to iron out some of the details. Um Miss Borjesy will be helping us with that. Uh but we we are hiring a network administrator. Um and we will be splitting it with our friends in North Halen. Looks like we're going to save a little over 12 grand for this year and then anticipating savings of 24,000 for next year over what we're currently paying for the outsourced or the agency services. So, um I think it's going to give us more hands-on support
022and uh we're really excited about it and it's a familiar face. So, um you can look to if we don't have that on the agenda for May 27th, it'll only be because we're working out logistics. Uh we have a 0.5 elementary specialed teacher and I had made a note that that's going to be a tough one to fill. I just got a transmitt report for it today. So I'm interviewing that person uh next week and we'll look to have her on the agenda for the 27th. And then we posted for a special ed math position. Um that was going to prove challenging to fill because you need somebody who has both the math certificate as well as the special edert. This way they're considered highly qualified and they can teach in a resource replacement situation.
023So, that one um I'm anticipating is going to be a little more challenging to fill, but you just need that one. You need one candidate. It's all one good candidate. It's all you really need. Um and again, I made the comment about Miss Barbosa, but it really was an outstanding pool for the science supervisor position. I give Mrs. Vansol a lot of credit. She followed the process very precisely. Um things were very well laid out. They were organized. Communication was precise. And judging from somebody who was there on the inside, it sounds like our team really presented very well, which is what you want. I look at that as a as a two-way recruiting opportunity, not only for the candidate, but also for the district representatives. So, uh, I'm thrilled that that's working so well.
024Um, so that that really summarizes staffing. Um, as you know, we have a couple resignations. We've already posted for those. Um, and something I'll put out there that we've been doing with our postings as well is for for a lot of positions, we're making it known what the salary range is. Um, and we're seeing a larger candidate pool right now. So, um, it's becoming a little bit more of a little more difficult to to select candidates because you have so many good ones coming in. But just as an which is a good problem to have. We have an elementary school teacher position and we've already received over 100 applicants. I think it's actually up to 120 now. Um, yeah. So, um, things are starting to things are starting to pick up in the market. So,
025we're um we'll look to have obviously everything fully staffed in time for the September 2nd opening with staff, September 4th kids. But um we're enthusiastic about the pool we're seeing. I don't know if you guys have any questions about staffing or or processes. Cool. The second item that's there, it's a it's a three-pronged one. Um and it has to do with district communications. First one is the crisis communications plan. And um this one was actually born out of I was at a school board's training and it was nice. I had I had my oldest son there with me who's also a board member in Lincoln Park. And as things would come up, he would look at me, I'd say, "Yeah, we have that." And when they had the crisis communication plan, I definitely tried to
026avoid eye contact with him because I had to just sheepishly say, "Yeah, we don't have that one yet." Um, so I I did a I did a a search um of what other districts in New Jersey have for crisis communication plans and there's not an awful lot out there. So, um, I I initiated a meeting, this is about two months back, with Mr. Riner, who's a school safety specialist, Ron Lucas, uh, Matt Sheay, and Karen OG who works in the board office with me. And we got to work and what I thought was going to be kind of a fairly easy four or fivepage document. It's probably going to be much more voluminous than that. Um, Ron Lucas has something that outlines contingency plans for all possible things. We get a tornado, what happens? Um,
027what what what gets triggered? Who gets called? Who are the who are the agents with whom we communicate? And we want it focused on positions as opposed to people because people change, positions stay intact. Um, so they're they're working so much deeper into the weeds than I anticipated and I'm really excited about it. Um, I I think I made a reference to this last month and I said that this will most likely show up as a board goal for an board goal, sorry, a district goal for next year. I think it's just that important. And what we're going to look to have is an internal very thick report for the crisis communications plan that something happens, principles, supervisors, directors have access, they know exactly what to follow. And a more simplified version that we can
028share out with the public because I think it is important for the public to see. Okay, so these guys know that this is how they push things out. Sometimes you have sometimes you have to push out to the media. You have to use social media, whatever the resources might be. But we want to make sure that what we have is is uh is top shelf and is something that when we share with you guys to review, it reflects a lot of lot of work. So thinking about the uh the crisis communication plan, we do have I mean I don't know if we share them with the public, we probably don't because of uh sensitive nature of the information, but we do have contingency plans of where people go from each school and how that's communicated.
029So I I I wouldn't say we have nothing. We just don't have something in this form. Correct. Yeah. And and I should articulate that because I realize out of context what I said about 3 minutes ago probably sounded awful. We we we have we have a lot of plans in place and what I want to do is narrow it. So there's something called the coupe which is a major contingency plan that that's about 100 pages. We we have that one ready to go. It's just it's not the most userfriendly document. I want something where it's almost like it has tabs where you can quick jump to something. Um we we have evacuation plans for each building. We have safe haven evacuations. We have um there's another one when you when you go a far distance
030but don't actually enter another building. It's not safe haven, but it's similar to an offsite evacuation. So, yes, we we have myriad plans that are in place, I want it streamlined into something that if something happens, the last thing I want you to have to do is look. Um I want I want you to be right there and you can access it and act quickly. Um we're also going to work on having statements ready to go, too. So, um, if we have to go into, um, a shelter in place because there's a bear outside, which could happen, um, I want the statement that's going to go out to families ready to go. So, you're not sitting there trying to type it. It's already done. So, yeah. And those Yeah. And and for crisis communications, it
031may be one incident, but you may have seven different communications prepared to go because you're something you give to your principles. You may not be giving to staff or you may not be giving out to the public or to media or to the police or fire department. So you may have seven different cookie cutter statements ready to go and then you just fire them out. And it's that's why you say, "Oh, this this will be simple." And then all of a sudden, wait a second, this is one incident, but now there's seven different messages I have to send and have them ready to go within like 5 minutes. And you hit the nail right in the head. Yeah. And it was it was a good moment of humility for me to realize, especially listening to
032to Ron and Matt Riner talking and they're really they get really into it, but just to your point to the the depth of it. Yeah. and what I send to the board is going to be different from what I'm I would send out to perhaps the the greater public which is different from what I would send to to a media member which internally we have something different alto together so yeah it's going to require a lot of preparation a lot of work but I think it's going to be really good work and uh you prepare these things too hoping that you never have to implement them and I bring up the tornado one of the it was an interesting moment from one of my it was my from my first year but when there was
033a threat of a tornado coming through Puquanic and we didn't have a tornado plan. So I was quick looking on websites from schools in Kansas trying to see what they recommended. Get it get in the hallways, get away from windows. I mean essentially classrooms are bunkers. They're they're all cinder block. So yeah, earthquake. Yeah. Yep. Yep. So yeah, we there there is one thing in the um in the kind of generic overview that we have too. There is something for volcanoes. We determined that we could dismiss that one. We we we think we're okay there. It's true. I said that about earthquakes. Um and then the the next two are are more for review purposes, but the the second the second item there is the website app. And um Matt Shay and I have been
034talking about evaluating our current format and usage for not only our website, but also our app. So I think what we did when we went to final site a couple years back was uh was I think it was a very good move and I I felt like I feel like our website is laid out better. What I don't love is if we want to make changes because this the static part of our website takes up too much space to condense that would require an enormous upcharge from final site which I'm not a fan of. So, we've looked at another vendor that we could work with um who whose approach is that you you get one major overhaul per year for free and then you get a series of smaller changes that they kind of look
035at as the big ball of whatever. They don't they don't try to nickel and dime you. So, we we are looking at um another possible vendor. They did actually send us a quote which was pretty was was more than competitive. Um, but we want to get a input not only from the board, but also from from our staff, potentially the community before we do move on to something else. But the app, um, that was a I think that was a victory and we're we definitely want to continue with that. So that that would be embedded. Oh, and something we like about some of the competitors too is that I I use a platform called school messenger to send out my newsletters. Um, if we if we were to go to one of the competitors, it's
036actually integrated into the system. So, um, I would push it out. It'd be articulated right into the website and it's, uh, to me it creates an efficiency. So, these are things we're looking into and you guys will you guys will definitely hear about this, especially if anybody's in on PMC. Um, and then finally for social media, I just put that in there as something that um, we're open to input from the community, from the board, from staff, from the kids about um, our social media reach. Um, I I'm pretty open about it. I I still find Instagram kind of weird and scary, so I don't go on it very much. Um, but what how how can we best reach um different segments of our school community? I feel like Facebook is really great for parents.
037Um, I know Mrs. OG and Mr. Shave have worked very hard on creating content that we can push out there and I know it pushes out automatically to Instagram in many cases. Um, we also use Twitter, which hasn't really um, maintained the traction it once had. But if there are other means that we can employ, I'm interested because I feel like we have a lot of great messages to share. Let's make sure we're getting them out to the maximum reach. Yeah. Most of it, I think, is that like how much are people on social media and then there's so many updates that come through their phone that they might not get ours. Yeah. Because they get something else, you know? But, uh, I I think the ones that you just mentioned, I think, are the
038ones that you would want to have. Mhm. They're getting a little loud outside. I think we're okay. Yeah, probably Tik Tok would be your best. All right. Anything else with PMC? I I I did over here Tik Tok. We're gonna we're going to decline that one. Um, but but yeah, so we we'll see if there are other um possibilities. We'll check them out. All right, moving on to CIS. Uh we have two items. Uh curriculum committee meeting update and then the NJ uh graduation proficiency assessment results. Sorry, I'll go over the um CIS notes from our curriculum meeting. We had a curriculum meeting on the 5th. Um it was myself, Mr. Mweeny, Sam Sesi, and uh Mr. Senic, as well as Mrs. Vancle. It was a really productive meeting. Um as was the last one.
039Um, we discussed the EA ELA presentation that was held um, and you know how amazing it was and how informative it was and how it helped the board get a good idea of some of the upgrades and and happenings within the ELA um, department. Um, we also discussed integrity, uh, possibly purchasing it to fill in some of the gaps in phmic awareness for our students as well as purchasing some materials for, um, the elementary students in terms of phonics needs specifically um, filling the gaps in foundations as well as over the summer working on building scope and sequence um, to fill in some of those gaps in foundations. in terms of the curriculum which gathering all from that from the dibbles assessment right really using that data um discussed novels again um already in the
040works developing a list of the novels that are in use um discussing current usage and gaps discussing um ways we can implement moreformational text work um specifically in social studies and science as well as working on some of um writing becoming even more of a priority to work on those skills. Did I miss anything for ELA? No. All good. Okay, I got it. All right. So, math. Um so, we discussed the standards uh updating the curriculum over the next couple of months in terms of the 2023 standards. uh math supervisor will present to the b uh to the board on the 27th in regard to conquer math and all that was um learned throughout the conquer math series um and what they've brought back for that from that um continuing to review resources for math
041intervention really ways to target those deficits. Um, a lot of great um, so piloted this year the district piloted uh, ready math for algebra 1 which was a new program through I Ready. Um, so we're going to bring that in hopefully next year. Are we debating it? Um, we're discussing it. Discussing it. I'm sorry. Discussing possibly bringing that in. Um, so that was great. Um, science. um hired uh Mrs. Barbosza. Congratulations. Excited to have you. Um moving forward or grading again, it's discuss discussing grading. Um Mr. Cop has been modeling labs in the fifth grade classroom. Social studies will be implementing the TCI program for grades 1 through 5 next year. Um talking about community walking tours. Summer curriculum will be updated for grades 1 through 5. uh middle school, high school um implementing or
042aligning the ELA standards um at the PD December February PD in December and February, health updates with the health curriculum updates with town health department providing some materials um and collaborating with us in terms of some vaping and fentanyl education which is absolutely needed. uh discussed dual enrollment submitted additional courses to William Patterson for computer information and technology cyber security data science marketing one and two was approved um accounting there's no course available allied health students will full-time allied health stu students seniors instead of taking um anatomy and physiology 2 will be taking AP bio um discussed uh PV advanced placement rubrics and recommendations. So students going into honors class. We did discuss the importance of communicating that with parents um with the with the teachers communicating that with parents as well. So there's no
043surprises. Uh again discussed grading scale and expectations. Um there was clarification that we have budgeted for 20 out of district students. We only have 17 in private out of district programs. Um but there are three more conservatively budgeting for those just in case. Um and I think that was it. I'll just mention on the um I found out today on the vaping/fentanyl education. Um we do at the high school have a presentation set up next year for all grades 9 through 12. Um I forget which month. I'm guessing it's October. Um but Mr. Hazer and I had a conversation about that today. So, that's good. We'll have that covered. Awesome. I think that's amazing. Um, I think that was that was all I had. I don't think I missed anything. It was a great meeting.
044We're going to meet again in August. I think we discussed that we'd meet at the end of August before the school year starts just to go over a few more items. Um, I'm anticipating we'll have a meeting like every other month just to kind of um keep updated. But again, thank you Mrs. Vancical for um for listening to us, hearing us, and always being so proactive. We appreciate it. Welcome. I just want to weigh in on a couple of the items, too. I I I was not at the meeting. Um I was I had a personnel meeting and then I made a late phone call, which Mr. Bloomer said wasn't terribly late, to reach out to our friend, Miss Barbosa, which 7:15 is pretty late, right? I mean, that that didn't that didn't help my
045cause. Um, but I'm really happy to hear about the the wide range of things you covered. Quick update on the the walking tour. Um, we're going to look at as a as a one school pilot for this year with SJG, just the logistics of trying to coordinate with North Boulevard and with Hill View with how few days, how many things are going on at this time of year. Um, we're going to look to possibly do that in the the fall. we think it's better suited when things are a little bit more wide open, but I mean there's 24 more days of school left, which is unbelievable to say out loud. Um, but yeah, so we we we've kind of paired down what we're looking to do there. And then I'm so happy what you said,
046uh, Miss Espazito, about the AP bio as an opportunity for our seniors in the allied health program. And that's something that's been a source of frustration and I will admit some dynamic tension for me with the high school is that our some of our best science students in that allied health program were not able to take AP bio and that's been that's been fixed and I'm really excited about that. And then I'm just going to echo I'm thrilled about the efforts being made to combat vaping and I know Mr. Canisano from the town health office is really appreciative of how receptive the school district's been to his work. this is something he's very passionate about and he should be. This this benefits kids and um benefits families, brings greater education, something that the more you
047learn about it, the more terrifying you realize that that crisis really is. So, just want to voice my support for that. I'll add one more thing. Um in our meeting today, um we were talking about scheduling at the high school, too, and um there's more students scheduled for physics than Mr. Hazler has remembered in I think he said ever. So, um I think that's a great Huh. I am I'm not sure how much ever, but we're excited about that. That's really good. Yeah. Um want me to move on to the next one. Any questions? Awesome. Um so, the New Jersey graduation proficiency assessment. So, we got the um the very preliminary ondemand um uh scores basically that Pearson puts out. So, we had 151 students in grade 11 take both assessments. In ELA, 95% passed.
048Um and in math, 83% passed. In 2024, that was 77%. So, we're excited about um that growth in math. For those that didn't achieve proficiency, I wrote summer retake, but we do actually the fall retake here. So, um, we'll just switch that. The students who did not pass will have the opportunity to retake the assessment in the fall. Um the state has not updated what the 20 the class of 2026 can do as alternate options but um the current pathway would be um to use a different profision score from the PSAT, SAT, ACT or ACUPPLACER. Um a third pathway is the um portfolio appeal. So we're waiting for guidance on what class of 2026 can do. So hopefully we'll get that in like the next month. Any questions? All right. Uh, moving on to FFA,
049we have four items. A new SDA grant, the North Boulevard playground, renting of the turf fields to non-residents, and then an update on uh the board office property and what options are being considered. Okay, I'll take the first one. the new SDA grant. Uh the school board has an opportunity to collect or get reimbursement, I should say, of $101,000 for a project that was done last summer, which was the remediation of asbestous out of Hillview. The total uh project was 300,000. So, we'll be able to get a re uh refund or reimbursement of 101,000, which will go back into the capital reserve fund for future use. Any questions? When was that? When was this removal? Like how long ago are we? Last last summer. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I believe that was the all purpose room,
050right? Yeah. And is it like a percentage like just or is 101 the number? Uh 40% of whatever your total cost was total cost would have been 253, but we spent close to 300, so we're we're definitely in there to get it. Okay. Thanks. Um, yes. So, the other Well, do you want to go right to four and talk about four and then I'll just talk about my two items? Mike, did you want to talk about four or do you want me to talk? You know, you guys look at me like I lack any flexibility whatsoever. I was actually Gordon. Gordon sent it to you. So, you guys can throw the two. I'll roll with it. So, my two I'll talk to my my two I'll give you some time. So, uh, no, I just
051wanted two items on the um as a discussion item. I don't think there's no real board. um action to be taken. Just thought it'd be good discussion. Number one, um North Boulevard playground. There was that incident um that we were notified about and that kind of sparked a lot of community communication primarily to me in certain places just about the slides at that playground. I've heard that there they it was never an ideal playground situation. So just I want to know is that accurate? Is it something are we are we taking precaution so that the accident doesn't happen again and that Yeah. I I haven't seen it. I meant to go check. I have not been able to yet. Yep. So So what I'm showing you and I should have uploaded this to um to
052backup. I can actually pass this to it's on my cellular telephone. Um but I Dr. Sher sent me that's an image of what one of the smaller students fell through. So you notice there's an opening so that kids can climb down. It's it's like a graduated um climb down. So what we've been doing, playground equipment really is designed for kids ages 5 through 12. Um and so we have whenever the prek is out there, we always have an aid stationed there and that that's as a safety measure um to make sure that they can't possibly slip through. And and it's interesting that we're working on getting a playground um that's specifically for children who are in pre-K as well as for in the uh multiple disabilities program or really for for any any sensory needs.
053It's it's really a playground for all. But I think that this this helps to amplify the urgency for it. Um I will say I was I was very proud of the student who fell. Apparently the reason he cried is because he wanted to go back and play with the nurse. I I I I admire that initiative, but we want to make sure that that our kids are safe. And so, yeah, when when I when I saw that equipment, I was like, "Oh, now now I get it. It's not just like there was a gap where they didn't finish something." And then as a good measure, too, she also sent me the the there's actually a pretty cool looking slide and climbing thing. Um, also on my cellular telephone. Yes. Um, but that that flip phone.
054Yeah. That one's forbidden. Um, that the preschoolers are not allowed on that one because it's just too much of a hazard. I can I can add these pictures um to to back up after the fact too, but I should have added them in proactively. But yeah, so we are working on that. So it's good. I can actually give you two answers though about the playground. So we we are um adding safety measures while the prek is out there and also um we're working on getting something hopefully it won't be ready for the beginning of 2526, but hopefully we can get it in at some point during the next school year. Great. That's very helpful and good to hear. Thank you. The second one obviously you know we take a lot of pride in our grounds.
055I think we have a beautiful campus. Um one of the most beautiful around and again traveling for sports you see even more mass fluent areas that don't even have what we have. It's it's fantastic. Um a lot of reports about you know we do rent our turf fields to non-residents which is normally fine and dandy. Um a parent slashmaster board member has you know notified me about a lot of issues issues trash being left there. Um just obviously not respecting our grounds. So if you would like to I I I could pass them to Mr. Sesi to give some so more content text on that but obviously what can we do? What have we been doing to just make sure that if somebody is renting it, they are held to the obligation of them respecting
056the grounds? I guess in the end, um Gordon, ultimately my question will be is is it worth that we do this? And I don't expect an answer today. Uh, I've kind of asked this question in the past and I know we we recently revoted we recently voted for the the fees uh to be renewed and stuff, but I guess my question is is it worth the wear and tear on the turf fields that you know they only have a certain life and now we're adding eight hours on a Saturday and eight hours on a Sunday that these these fields are being used. Um, unfortunately, you know, I I grew up in um, shall we say, an Italian family who's looking at everything all the time and very nosy. Okay. And so when I walk past
057or drive past or walk my dog, I mean, you know, when you walk your your dog past the high school, it takes a little bit of time. And so, you notice a lot of different things. And there's there's garbage on the fields. Um, there's people that are, you know, hanging on the fences. There are numerous dogs on the fields, which really upsets me because if the signs were any bigger, you know, but people just and there's people in this town that walk on the fields with their dogs and then I get to hear from the athletes that there's dog stuff on the field. So, like, you know, it's a turf field and kids are stepping in it with their cleats. Um, and in my opinion, we're we're taking away, and I I don't, you know,
058I don't want to do a poll or find out how many, but if we're taking the fields away for our student athletes in our own town on the Saturdays and Sundays, they can't go out there and and do what they want to do or the the kids can't go out and play flag football or whatever because we're renting out the fields. Um, and I guess ultimately just my question is is is it worth the extra money that we're getting from this? Are we really getting the money or is the town getting the money? Um, and uh on top of that, I I think um I had brought up about the no entrance signs outside the Kelllet gym. And uh on Saturday, I walked my dog. So, from the time I went to the tennis courts
059down to the boulevard and back to the tennis courts, I saw four different cars pull in the at the exit. Uh, and me being who I am, uh, with the attitude, I went over and told the guy with the truck from Delaware that I know you're probably not here all the time, but you can't be pulling in this parking lot this way because there was a car coming out at the same time. And again, you know, it it's if maybe if we're really into the issue, right? If we don't rent out the fields, we might have less people who don't know how to enter Mhm. the parking lot. Um I guess is my thing. Thank you, Joe. That was that was helpful. I I know how to manage it. Yeah. So, again, I I just
060saying is it worth it in the end? How much are we really making to make this maybe go away. I mean, are we paying extra for everybody to go pick up, you know, for the custodians? Is it extra work for them? What else? That That's really where I'm going with it. And I don't expect answers today. I can't give you an answer tonight. I wasn't answer. You didn't stop talking. Now you can answer. Yeah. I don't have don't have an answer for you today. We can look into actually which group is leaving the most garbage behind. Hopefully, it's just one, maybe two groups, and maybe we stop them from coming. Or we charge them an extra fee for a custodian to go out there and clean up, you know, the field after they're gone. Um,
061we could also do a penalty system where, all right, you get three strikes. One, first time it's 100 bucks, second time it's 200, third time is 300, and you're not coming back. Something like that. I mean, there there's many different ways to do it, but I think we need to discuss it a little more before we just, you know, try to make a decision on that. Yeah. No, I that's that's cool. I The other thing I I've heard is that we're not even allowed to tell people that the dogs aren't because somebody might have a a uh what do you call it? A ser service animal or something like that or so we're not even allowed to ask them. I listen no dogs allowed like take your dog. That's not true. That's not true. That's
062not true. That's not true. I thank you for saying that because that's what I've been told. So, I mean, I'm going to continue to tell people to get their dog off the field, but it's, you know, maybe we should just stop doing it is my point. Well, so it's it's a function of our policy. So, if we want to change that policy and and implement the things that Gordon was just talking about as far as penalties and things like that, one, two, three strikes, that's something we could certainly do. Yeah. something that that Gordon and I did discuss uh earlier today was that graduated uh punishment system, but you could even have it almost like when when you rent out a property, somebody has put down a security deposit because it's very it's hard to
063get penalty money back to people, but if you already have it, you can determine how much you're going to give back. Um I I spoke with somebody u who's friendly with a a guy who runs a bunch of baseball centers and he actually charges by the water bottle that's picked up. Um which is yeah it's pretty precise and it just it sends a message back and you can tell people like look you take a panoramic of what this place looks like when when you're getting here and it better look that good if not better when you're leaving it. So um we we we can look at the amount of revenue that's brought in. like I I do like to see the fields getting used whether it's through some type of formal V competition or if
064it is kids playing flag football or whatever it might be. Um but we we we'll look at the value added from whatever revenue we're generating. And and I I thoroughly like the idea of um making it making a very strong argument against leaving garbage behind. We have issues with kids riding their bikes on the field. We're never going to stop right now of our kids hanging on the fences. Our lacrosse goals were getting destroyed and his kids thought it was fun to try to do chedups on it. So, yeah. I mean, yeah, there was there was a kid the other day throwing. He was playing wall ball with one of the uh sheds. Yeah. I think that's going to be the hardest thing. The hardest thing is going to be proving who did it as
065Well, that's why I'm saying just let's just end it. So, right, but end it. Then we're then we're turning away money that we could get. And I I I I guess the question is like how prevalent is it ver is it people that live in town just leaving a water bottle behind or walking their dog or is it the people that are, you know, renting the field that are causing the problem? Um or is it just one bad apple, you know, spoiling the whole thing? So, I mean, I think we just got to look into who's doing it, but then how do you actually monitor it as well? Like does someone go to the field and inspect it before they rent it to make sure it wasn't like kids that were there on like Friday
066after school just playing around and it wasn't them and like how do you even how do you govern this would be the question, right? And then we don't have that money. I think I think I think Mr. Senk's right it's very hard to make a blanket statement that we have to we can't rent it out to outside of town you know uh for non-residents anymore. You know, just frame of reference, you know, I my morning route on a on a Monday for running, I always do a couple laps on the track at the high school. And I know on Sundays there, the men's soccer is pretty much there all day. Today, there was one water bottle left on the field. It was on the bench. It was actually a nice thermos water bottle that somebody's
067probably missing today. It wasn't just garbage. But there have other other Mondays when I've run on that track and there's 20 water bottles. So, it's it's it's hit or miss. Um maybe if it is you know you take a picture of the field in the morning and then first thing on you know on Sunday morning and then on Monday morning if you show the you know the grounds crew shows up in the in the morning it's like wow there's shirts and garbage and paper and bottles all over the place we send a picture and say you guys left this um this is your security deposit for the day gone. But I think it's hard to make, you know, generalization that you just can't rent to non-residents because many times when I do go by the
068field, it's sometimes, hate to say it, our own kids jumping on the the track um high jump pit and riding their bikes on the track on the track high jump pit. Um so we just can't say it's non-residents. Uh I do have a question for Jackie. If someone's dog is on the field and there are our our signs up there and something happens with that dog, are we liable? Yes. Fantastic. Okay. Thanks. So, I I think um a good plan of action would be maybe the we should look at the policy and see if there's something that we want to add to it. maybe it doesn't have the right kind of teeth or you know it doesn't have any kind of violation clause or something like that that we should look to make sure that
069that's in place so at least um there is something to actually enforce you know I think that'd be a good first step to kind of taking what you're saying Sam and putting it into some real action You want me to start it? And now for something completely different. So the the last item is about the seven industrial road property and other options. Um Mr. Gibbs and I were talking about this one at length earlier today, too. Um as you know, we've been talking about what's going to be our next home for board office. Um, we have the post office property through February of 2026 and then we need to find another home. Um, I was very enthusiastic about Seven Industrial Road. Unfortunately, um, some information that I'll say was a typo or an accounting oversight.
070Um, altered my perspective on what potential revenue could be from that building. and that it loses to me considerable value a as a possible landing place in the absence of the consistent stream of revenue that I thought was going to be in that 100 to 120 ballpark. Um we are looking at other options. I was spoken with them today. We're looking at plan C and plan D. Um it's been approved that we can get an appraisal for the New York Pike property. I appreciate the board's support on that. We'll have somebody going out this week give us an appraisal that'll determine how much we can actually bid or yeah bid I guess for for the for the property. But um I'm going to turn the floor over to Mr. Gibbs. But I I just wanted
071you to know this is something that we're very actively working on. um when I'm down in um Atlantic City for my conference, I am actually going to be meeting with um representative from our architect firm also to talk about my expectations for um what we can get out of a few different property options and just share my my thoughts about um the process for seven industrial road as well because we know I know the board wasn't um universally thrilled with how some of the news was shared um or it's the timeline. So, what all of that conversation, but um I don't know if you want to add anything there, Gordon. Yeah, actually um I did reach out to the state as to what's involved in getting a property or purchasing a property. Uh as long
072as there's no children in the building as far as classrooms, uh it's just a matter of basically filling out a form and updating our long-range facility plan. So, that that's an that's an easy thing to do. Um, as far as I mean, seven industrial obviously was very disappointing that we could not put in a preschool. That was that was a real let down. Um, and unfortunately we didn't get that information till much later. Now, the new building we're looking at now is a much older building. Uh, needs a lot of work, but it's considerably less in price. uh we don't have the appraisal yet so we don't have the actual cost of it but it's um probably about 25% less than what we're looking at right now with seven industrial so it's a possibility any
073questions um so with this new building we wouldn't be generating any revenue would that lead to any issues because I know how you mentioned how we're losing uh the revenue we're generating from the post office uh and we were gaining that with seven industrial now that we won't be getting that is that going to be any issue in the future do you And that that's a great question because that was something I was really enthusiastic about because I just stumbled across the word enthusiastic. See that's how excited I was. But um school districts generally don't generate revenue. So the fact that we could be doing so um I was really I was excited because we we've had that 55,000 over the last five years coming in for the post office. Prior to that it was
07450. Prior to that it was 40 and so forth. But um what we're doing more aggressively now is seeking out savings because if we can't bring that additional money in, we're going to now find ways to make sure it's not going out. And um what I'm discovering with this shared services group that that more or less just kind of grew somewhat organically in our little corner of Mars County is that there are opportunities for savings. It's a lot of work, but it's it's really good work. Um and so if if we if we can get the Chapel Hill route consolidated with um Palton Lakes and another another district, that could be the 55,000 that we're not getting from the post office. It would be saved or actually we would be generating revenue there. That wouldn't
075be a savings. It would be revenue because the the agreement that we have with the other districts is if we're paying $70,000 for a run and your district can pick it up, we we'll pocket 35 in savings and pay you 35 to do the run. So, the fact that we're able to pick up a run for somebody means we're going to get half of what they're spending. Um, which I think is is a great win-win situation. So, to your point, Tim, it's a really good one. Um this this one would have zero revenue generating opportunities to it but it would be at a considerably less um purchase cost. So does that mean is seven industrial kind of off the table? Is that how it looks? Not not completely, but it's been um the sheen is
076off the is off that one. Um yeah, I said blooms off the rose. So it it is a possibility. It's just it's not nearly as attractive as a couple other things that we're a little bit more enthusiastic about. I ask you a question. Do we make interest on the money that we have in capital reserve? Yes, we do. All right. So, if we were going to pay X for seven industrial and spend more of the capital reserve money and now we're going to spend less of that money potentially, the difference between what we were going to spend and what we're going to spend now, that difference would be put in our account and we would gain interest on it. it would stay in the account and yes it would be interest and we got a
077large amount of money from the state last year I think $ 1.7 million which we didn't have. So essentially if we're not spending that $1.7 million or just a small piece of it that additional plus money we would be gaining interest on it and that might also offset the loss of revenue from the post office. Uh well, unfortunately, you can't um take that revenue out of capital reserve. It has to be for a capital reserve project. So, it can't be used for general operating expense. Understood. But either way, it's still money that's coming into the coffers that we can use for something that we don't have to go find somewhere. Exactly. Yep. Definitely better than nothing. Absolutely. Yep. Do we have a final number of what the revenue is from Industrial Road or we're not
078sure because I know there was an update. Correct. Yeah. where I was anticipating we're looking at 100 to 120. I think we would have been looking at something closer to like 10 to 20. And to me there's there's that's a very thin razor thin margin of error. So like if one tenant leaves, you know, it's not that we would be operating um in the red, but um it to me it's just it's not worth the benefit doesn't outweigh the cost. Sorry, that was 10 to 20,000. Yeah, but that that 10 to 20,000 was before renting out the space, you know, the additional space on the second floor. There's still potential, but you know, it's the board's decision obviously, but it is does have potential. Yeah. Any other questions? Enough. Thank you. All right. Moving on
079to policy. Two items. the AI policy and then the timeline for ongoing revisions to policy items. Sorry, I can't multitask. I I'll take care of the um I I can do both policy items. I spoke briefly to Mr. Mweeny about these, but the AI policy were we're right on schedule with um what we wanted to do. Um if you recall, this was part of a Strauss um a major bulk update that Strauss provided back in December that I started to break down for you in January and we went through the approval process starting in March, but we said it wasn't really worthwhile to approve the AI policy until we had an AI plan. So, Mr. Shay and the committee um are confident based on their work this year that we will have an AI plan
080in place by mid July which it coincides brilliantly for when we will do our first policy reading for the AI policy. It'll go through its second policy reading in August which means it'll be ready for implementation for the start of the 2526 school year. So I had one comment on the policy that was in backup the AA policy as it stands now. Um, I'm not going to go through my comments now, but I guess I'll send them to Mr. Mcweeny and then we could put them into a future discussion. Great. If you want to if you want to throw anything out there, too, because that was that was work that was actually done um with the AI committee, too. So, it's got that group's fingerprints all over it. So, the green that's in there, all
081of the input from the committee, no issue with that. It's more like the last paragraph as far as your ability to like just change the policy for us for any amount of period of time before you come back to us to get approval. I think we just got to word that a little bit better. Yeah. And that is that is one thing that I can imagine for the board um it can be unnerving is too strong but the fact that so much of the policies predicated on the plan and the plan is a living document um it consolidates a lot of power into me and I mean I'm not going to go all Makavelian on you guys but um but it is important that those checks and balances are in place and anything that is
082a major revision to the plan has to be presented to the board um and and a failure to do So that that comes down on me. Um you know so Matt Sheay is the delegate for it. He will be responsible for generating significant portion of the content. He'll run it through me. I'll run it through you and it'll be a pretty consistent pipeline there. And I think uh Dr. Pors did you mention that uh Mr. Shay is going to give a presentation is in June a full presentation of the the plan and policy u to June to the board. Yeah. And that I can't believe I didn't mention that. That's Yeah. So, at the June 9th meeting, Matt will do a presentation on exactly what what Greg was just talking about. I think this could
083be fantastic coming straight from him. You guys can ask him questions. He's super knowledgeable and he's very enthusiastic. There's that word again about um about really this whole measure. And he's really through this process, he's really become a state leader in in AI and education. I'm really I'm really proud of him for that. I'm also impressed with his work. That was an intentional dramatic pause while I was writing something down. And the other thing is um we we have a living document that's been shared with you. Uh it's titled Simply Enough Policies to address. Um so something I was talking about um with Mr. from Sweeney is that we're we're we're going to um focus on which policies are most timely to be implemented or revised in time for the 2526 school year. Like having
084a field trip policy that's revised for the school year, that's a good one to have ready for a a July 1 reading. Um grading system as well, but there there are others that aren't necessarily quite as bless um quite as urgent. Um, that's a lot. Bless you. The class rank one though it is important isn't isn't something that's timesensitive. So, that one can wait because that's more or less a language revision. But, I just wanted to make you aware that we're going to prioritize which policies um require the most urgent emphasis to ensure that they're ready to go for September 4th, 2025. By the way, we have a board meeting the night before that one times. That's it's my story. I'm sticking to it. All right. Anything else on policy? Okay. That brings us to
085our next opportunity for public comment. This time the public can speak on any topic they wish if there's anyone here, but there isn't. So, we're going to move on to unfinished business. Any board member have any unfinished business? How about new business? How about board member announcements? I have a few. Uh, I attended the county um the NJ SBA or I'm sorry, Morris County hybrid spring celebration, which was lovely. Um, it was really nice to see the unsung heroes um receive their prizes or their their um certificates. So, that was very nice. I also attended the NJSBA May delegate session which was awesome. The new board was um elected so that was fantastic. Um I also attended the PV choir concert which was my last PV choir concert. So that was a little sad but
086um it was amazing as always. Um Mrs. Bonitez and the students do a fantastic job. Um, she had all sixth, seventh, and eighth graders perform one song at the end. Um, which was tremendous. We even had kids standing back here on the floor. It was awesome. Um, they did a nice job. I give her a lot of credit. That is a lot of students to get to participate and a lot of pre-teen boys. So, um, they looked fantastic and they're all black and they're pop of color. Um, so a lot of credit to her. She's uh amazing and a great great addition to our district. Um, and I think that was it. I'll go. I just wanted to say one thing. I actually had this for last meeting, but we went super super late last
087time, so I didn't want to tack anything on, but I just wanted to say that a couple of weeks ago, um, CPAC invited Matt Sheay, more Matt Sheay, uh, commentary here. Um, they invited Matt Sheay to attend a meeting because I think they really wanted to meet with him, but then we wanted to refine the focus. So, um, he prepared a session on assist of technology. U, Miss Bronco and Mr. Foglio also attended. We had a huge turnout of parents in the meeting which was fantastic. Uh but Matt didn't just speak to um you know assist of technology um with special education students. He also talked about just everyday assist of tech that you know general ed students are using as well. Um got to show us a lot of stuff. There was a lot
088of back and forth Q&A. So um CPAC was really grateful to have him there. Um and he did a fantastic job as well as Miss Bronco and Mr. Foglio. Um and the group was really grateful to have them. So, thank you for that. And and I'll weigh in on the Matt Shay love fest, which is certainly certainly well earned. But something that that came up, it's true though as we were going through the network administrator interviews. Um, and I think Matt really embodies it is the focus of his work is not technology. The focus of his work is people and their relationship with technology. and and it really shows when when you take a people first approach um things fall into place really well. Now I'm going to conclude the Matt Shade Love Fest. It
089is now over. All right, I got two uh we kind of hit them already, but on 4:30 I attended the MCCA Friend of Education celebration. I attend this every year and this year again it was MCED by our very own Ann Marie Finnish. She does a great job. Uh it was a great event. And then on 57 as Dr. Dr. Porter said a bunch of us attended the Morris County SBA meeting where Shawn Moore was honored again for being an unsung hero. So he was honored at a prior meeting for being an unsung hero, but then out of those unsung heroes, he was honored again for being like the tippity top of the unsung heroes. For the high school students, I think they picked nine out of the like 20 and he was in that
090group of nine to get a scholarship. So really good job to uh Shawn Moore. And then also as as we had said already, uh Mr. Sesi and Dr. Poris were honored with certifications. Um so congratulations to both of you. All right. Uh we do have reason to go into executive session. We do have reason to go into executive session. We will discuss acquisition of property. No action will be taken. We will adjourn from there. Our next meeting is 5:27 here at the high school. Is there a motion to go into executive session? Motion. Is there a second? Second. All in favor? Any opposed? Good night everyone.