001Thank you everyone for attending this evening. Your presence is greatly appreciated. There has been adequate notice of this meeting provided by the board of education in the February 27, 2025. Notice in the Asbury Park Press and the co-star setting forth the date, time and location of this meeting. Similar notice has been posted in the Barrow Hall, the Brielle School website and the Barrow clerk has been notified. Ms. Quigley, if we could have roll call please. This is Paul Quigley. Mr. Becker. Present. Dr. Dan Burschow. Present. Mrs. Huck. Here. Ms. McDevitt. Here. Mrs. Weed. Mr. Vitale. Mrs. Walsh. Here. We may not have a forum to accept any retirements. Sorry Mr. Yee. If we could stand and pray. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which
002it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I can get a motion that the board approve the minutes of the meeting. Motion. Second. Mr. Becker. Nope. Yes. Dr. Dan Burschow. Yes. Mrs. Huck. Yes. Mrs. McDevitt. Yes. Mrs. Weed. Yes. Mrs. Walsh. Yes. Motion passed. All right, excuse me for my nervousness. It's been a long day and we have some titans here on the agenda this evening. So let's get to that, the retirements. Great. So I wanna thank everyone for being here tonight. Anytime that you start to see some of your veteran staff depart from your school, you always think in your head and you worry about the shift and how your school is going to be impacted when people who have had such a great influence on so many kids
003get ready for their next chapter. And so it's always so bittersweet when we come together to honor retirees. And as Mr. Becker said, the retirees we have this year have been so influential in our school and as a result of that, the greater community and we are going to miss them so much. So I have a little something, I'll keep it short to say about each of them just to get us started. So our first retiree is Shirley Carhart. Mrs. Carhart has served as a member of the BES staff for the past 24 years. She's served in a variety of different roles. We know we can tap into Shirley for so many different things as both she's been both a teacher and an aide and she has demonstrated such great care for the students with
004whom she works. Mrs. Carhart has always been flexible and adaptable and she's been so successful in collaborating with her colleagues to meet the needs of all her students. It's always so nice to see those very special connections that she has with kids and how she does go above and beyond to make them feel welcome here at school. We greatly appreciate all that Mrs. Carhart has contributed over the years to BES and we wish her all the best in retirement. Our next retiree is Mrs. Lo Mai. Mrs. Lo Mai has been a middle school math teacher here at Brielle for the past 16 years. Mrs. Lo Mai has a very special gift for cultivating positive relationships with her students and her enthusiasm and dedication were integral to the great learning environment here at BES. Mrs. Lo
005Mai always challenged her students to advance their success and she was the perfect teacher to support our students transition to high school. There's a level of trust that she establishes that enables her students to feel safe taking academic risks and her high expectations create a learning environment that challenges her students to thrive. Mrs. Lo Mai's involvement with eighth grade events and her leadership in the building will be sorely missed. We wish Mrs. Lo Mai a very happy retirement. Next we have Mrs. Patrone. Mrs. Patrone has been an elementary teacher in Brielle for 23 years. Her knowledge and expertise is outstanding and her ability to address the individual needs of each student in her classroom fosters a learning environment where all students can fulfill their potential. Mrs. Patrone said high expectations for her students while nurturing
006their growth. Her dedication and commitment ensured that her students had wonderful learning experiences setting the course for their future success. With her wisdom and experience, novice staff members often look to Mrs. Patrone for guidance and advice and she always offered support and a listening ear. Thank you for all you have contributed Mrs. Patrone. We'll miss you very much and wish you a very happy retirement. Last retiree is Mr. Yee. Mr. Yee is retiring after 21 years of service to BES. Many of you may not know, but Mr. Yee and I share common roots in Ramsey where I came from and I will always remember how he made me feel so welcome in my first days at BES. This probably doesn't surprise you however, as Mr. Yee's kind, generous nature is well known throughout BES and
007in the community at large. Mr. Yee has provided our students with great experiences in science, fostering their curiosity and providing hands-on learning experiences to ignite their love of learning. Mr. Yee has also dedicated so much time to the band, enrichment classes and other school activities and he will be missed by our students, staff and parents. We wish Mr. Yee a wonderful retirement and lots of happy memories in the future. So one thing that I had asked our support staff, Mrs. Spina Pont and Mrs. Kennedy, I said, you know, this year, when I do the retirement presentation, I at least would like to have like a slide up with some pictures and maybe people's years of service. And so Mrs. Spina Pont got started with that and I should know that anything I give our support
008staff to do, they will take and elevate. And so that is just who they are. So tonight with the help of Mrs. Kennedy, who spent a good amount of time on this, we have a special presentation to honor our retirees. So I wanna thank Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Spina Pont for creating this for all of you. Let's try again. Nobody knows how to say goodbye. Seems so easy to try. Nobody knows how to say goodbye. Try to get back home. Just to have a good time. Thank you again. Congratulations everybody. And we're just gonna totally enjoy these last six weeks. That was awesome. Change is inevitable and bittersweet change. I'm a simple person, simple terms. I can only thank you for helping to raise my children without you, it would have been impossible. I say
009this to everybody, you don't have to stay. You have family to be with. I want one or two hugs. You don't have to stay. Wanna take a picture? Take a picture. I know, yeah. I like how it looks. I like this. Every Sunday, I have to make sure that nobody will cheat on me. I think I'm cheating too. I did, I just thought, so I have to do this. This is my business. Anyway, I'm excited. I'm excited about it. Thank you. Okay, well there's so many issues. I'm just like, I'm so excited. Yeah, awesome, all right, I'll leave you to it. Thank you. I don't wanna use being a person. Okay, we are at visitor's business. Visitors are permitted to comment on agenda items only at this time. We just please ask that you state
010your name and address. Do we have any questions? I'm so shocked. This is fierce as hell. Nothing? This is, I don't know that anybody had a meeting this month between the, or this two weeks between the last, not myself and Carly. Did anybody have any comments? I had got some notes, but it's up to you. Please, please. Okay. That will probably be my administrative report. I think I realized there was one other, no, go ahead. Okay. That's right. Nothing happened in Manisquam, they passed their budget. People got approved for this year. I voted against it. Contracts are signed today. So we are doing NJSLA, testing is fully underway thanks to Mrs. Pearson and her organization. Student attendance has actually been notably amazing. Even with the traffic delay and some things popping up, everything's going really
011smoothly, knock on wood, we have a couple more days. So thank you for the staff, parents, and students for their cooperation during testing week. Eighth grade's having career day, May 22nd. The annual event provides a great opportunity for students to learn from professionals in a variety of fields. They're fortunate to have so many accomplished individuals who are willing to share their experiences with their students, with our students, and develop their interests to begin considering fields of study for the future. Spring field trips are going on and finishing up, and we're gearing up for the eighth grade. They're gonna have their culminating trip to Gettysburg and Hershey Park on June 5th and 6th. This is the first of several events to celebrate their success of their eighth graders through this whole month of June. We are
012looking forward to field day, always fun. We have a reminder that the first day of the first grade is June 10th and 11th, followed by Battle of Blazers on the 16th, and a reminder that the last three days, 17, 18, and 19 are early dismissals for students. But teachers have robust professional development during those afternoons with a full professional development day on that Friday, June 20th. And eighth grade graduation is scheduled for June 19th at 7 p.m. And we look forward to a wonderful celebration as this great group of kids who are ready to take questions as always. Awesome. No problem. I have no policy, Ms. Reed, do you have any? I don't have a formal report as I was not planning to be here tonight, but I did attend the BEF fundraiser last Thursday,
013which was a lot of fun, a lot of prizes, a really great showing. They did a great job as usual. So that's the only thing I have to personally report on but I think that PTO is obviously getting ready for field day and lots of end of the school year celebrations and that's about it. Band was good. It was fun. Everything was great. They always do a nice job and it's a great, again, end of school year fun type of thing to do. I didn't want to bite but. Shh. Team. Some lucky ladies here. Irene. Irene, that's right. PIT Administrative Report. Sure, so I think what Mrs. Walsh and Mrs. Reed both reported on would be encapsulated in my report but two other little items, I again want to thank the PTO for the amazing
014honoring they did of our teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week. The Wicked theme was so fun and just so creative and we just felt so appreciated. So everyone who contributed to that, our biggest thanks. We are also having the Student Council is sponsoring a food truck event, May 30th. They did that last year, it was really well attended. The kids really enjoyed themselves. So that will also be coming up before the end of the month. And I neglected to include that in my other committee report. So I wanted to just add that in as well. Thank you, Ms. Boll. No questions. There are no HIV reports, which brings us to action items. Ms. Walsh, can you move quick on that? Sure, I'd like to make a motion to approve the following items A1 through A8. Second.
015Mr. Becker? Yes. Dr. Jim Brosu? Yes. Mrs. Huck? Yes. Mrs. McEvitt? Yes. Mrs. Reed? Yes. Mrs. Walsh? Yes. Dr. D'Ambrosio, district operations please. I would like to put forth action items B1 through B5. Second. Lisa Huck? Mr. Becker? Yes. Dr. D'Ambrosio? Yes. Mrs. Huck? Yes. Mrs. McEvitt? Yes. Mrs. Reed? Yes. Mrs. Walsh? Yes. I would like to make a motion to approve the following policies and regulations. Second. Mr. Becker? Yes. Dr. D'Ambrosio? Yes. Mrs. Huck? Yes. Mrs. McEvitt? Yes. Mrs. Reed? Yes. Mrs. Walsh? Yes. Dr. D'Ambrosio? Yes. Mrs. Huck? Yes. Mrs. Reed? Yes. Mrs. Walsh? Yes. Dr. D'Ambrosio? Yes. Mrs. Reed? Yes. Mrs. Reed? Yes. Mrs. Reed? Yes. The board passes through the following items. D1 through D13. Second that. Mr. Becker? Yes. Dr. D'Ambrosio? Yes. Mrs. Huck? Yes. Mrs. McEvitt? Yes. Mrs. Reed? Yes.
016Mrs. Walsh? Yes. Mrs. Reed? Yes. All right. I am gonna forego 11 visitors business because clearly there's none here. The retirements were also. It means a lot. Thank you for your words. That brings us to payments of the bills. Mrs. Reed? Sure. I would like to make a motion that the board of education authorizes payment of the following April 20, 25 bills list and that the secretary is authorized to draw warrants of the treasurer in the total amount of $876,278.06. Second. Mr. Becker? Yes. Dr. D'Ambrosio? Yes. Mrs. Huck? Yes. Mrs. McEvitt? Yes. Mrs. Reed? Yes. Mrs. Walsh? Yes. Great job everyone. That brings us to board secretary certification which is done by our awesome business manager and board secretary. There is no executive session this evening so that begs for a motion. Mr. President, I'd
017like to make a motion to adjourn. Second. Okay, or I say. Aye. Aye. My goodness. Best meeting ever. Aye.