001meeting to order please stand salute our flag repeat after me this meeting is in compliance with the open public meeting law and has been duly advertised in the newspaper as an official meeting roll call this is Baraka's yeah this is Cass here dr. Osman here mr. Palmieri present mr. sergeant mrs. Rivera president mr. Walsh president I need a motion for approval of the agenda with addendums. Motion. Discussion. Seeing no discussion, roll call. Mrs. Baracus? Yes. Mrs. Cass? Yes. Dr. Rosman? Yes. Mr. Palmieri? Yes. Mrs. Rivera? Yes. Mr. Walsh? Yes. There will be no board recognitions this month, so I'm turning the meeting over to Mrs. Permeli for her superintendent's report. Thank you, Mr. Walsh. Good evening everyone. I hope everyone has been enjoying the summer months. It's been beautiful. The weather has been gorgeous this
002week. We do recognize though summer goes very quickly. It's hard to believe just a few weeks we're all back, students and staff. The district is preparing, very busy preparing, our facilities, our grounds, finalizing schedules, preparing for staff return on September 1 and September 2, and finalizing transportation routes. In regards to transportation this year, just a reminder to our students and families, please remember to bring your IDs. You need them to get on and off the bus this year with our new technology that we're implementing. We will be piloting the MyStop transportation app with parents in a few schools first thing in September, working through the kinks. And once we have worked through everything, we will roll that out district-wide. I believe parents will find that a very helpful app and approach to transportation. Staying with
003transportation for a little bit in regards to non-public transportation. I would like to remind families in the district that the district is required to follow a process That process has been presented several times by Miss Richardson here at the board meeting It is also posted on our district website under transportation The district is required every year to go out to bid for non-public routes for those students who qualify for transportation During our bid process this year, only one vendor picked up some of the bids. Many of them were not picked up. Hence, then, we need to provide aid in lieu. The routes that were bid on were reviewed and we insured, and thank you to the board for ensuring that the contracts were solid and safe for our students. We reviewed them and awarded those
004bids because they met the criteria of the bid. They have to meet the criteria. Any route that was not bid on, the families receive aid in lieu. This is a required process by law. We followed the process. There was no intervention in the process, and some routes were awarded. Most of them are receiving aid in lieu. On another subject, the CDC released some guidelines in regards to some significant changed guidelines in regards to the COVID pandemic. They are very optimistic guidelines. We are awaiting the New Jersey Health Department and the Department of Ed guidelines. Hopefully they fully adopt those CDC guidelines. But what I can say is that we will certainly begin the year with masks optional. They are not required. And we also will no longer, according to the governor signing the executive order,
005that now takes away the requirement for staff who are unvaccinated to be tested. So that will no longer occur either. So those are two things we know for sure. We will keep our community informed as we learn more about any guidelines that have to be in place. But we're certainly optimistic that we will be business as usual. Just a reminder. To our families again, this was mentioned at the last board meeting in July, lunch is not free this year. It had been free in the past through the pandemic, but prices are lower. As we presented at the board meeting last month, our lunch prices are significantly lower than normal, but I want to remind parents to complete the free and reduced lunch form. The income threshold is higher than ever before and provides more opportunities.
006to receive free and reduced lunch. So please take a moment to go to our website and complete the free and reduced lunch form. I also want to let the board know and the public that the stabilization aid application has opened. We in the district are busy filling out the application and plan on submitting that application in early September. And we'll let everybody know when we do submit it. This evening we have two presentations as part of my report. The first one is the annual 2021-22 nurse report, and Mr. Baginski is here this evening to give an overview of that report. Mr. Baginski? So, good evening. This is a annual report that we give to the Board of Education regarding our school nursing services from the year. This report tonight is a more traditional report. The
007past two nursing annual reports were done the last two Augusts when we were preparing for what was an unusual school year, so this is a more traditional report this year. I'll start by talking a little bit about the nursing duties and responsibilities that our nurses engage in throughout the school year. They are responsible for obtaining and reviewing all the health and medical information to fulfill state requirements in addition to meeting all the needs of students. So they gather all that information and make sure that it's shared with the appropriate people in the school and develop plans to make sure all students' health needs are met. They also fulfill all the mandatory reports regarding the various immunization requirements that the state sets forth. including keeping track of any COVID vaccinations that are submitted to the school.
008This is an annual endeavor for our nurses and it does take quite a bit of time. Our nurses are also involved in implementing individualized health plans for students with complex health problems. That could range from students with diabetes, asthma, or life-threatening food allergies. These plans are developed in conjunction with information from a medical doctor, and they lay out exactly how the school should be accommodating for the student while they're in school. Our nurses maintain certification in CPR and the use of defibrillators. We run an annual, every other year, training for our school nurses that are required to maintain those certifications. They also are the leaders of the emergency cardiac response teams, otherwise known as the Janus Law teams in our schools. These teams, which comprise of our nurse, and five other members of the school
009staff who are trained in CPR AED use and they drill twice a year and also are responsible for making sure that they're up to date with all the responses required when there's a cardiac event on site during the school day. Our nurses coordinate health outreach with a variety of different community sources, including making referrals to students and families through the health department and through other resources that our nurses have access to. And our nurses also have to respond to mandates, which the last year there have been quite a few different mandates that they've had to respond to made by the local health department, the New Jersey Department of Health, and also the New Jersey Department of Education. Nurses are certainly not immune to regulation, and they are probably one of the more regulated areas when
010it comes to schools. When we take a look at how our nurses are allocated in terms of staffing and our human resources in health services, we really look at two areas. One is the size of schools and frequency of visits, and then also the acuity level of the students they service. So this chart on the screen shows the size of our schools for this past school year and also the number of visits, which are in green in the middle column there. Just as a point of comparison, I provided the last pre-COVID year, the number of visits that we had. That's on the right. and that was from 2018-2019. So obviously the size of the school in terms of student population is an indicator as to how many visits they get the students make to the
011nurse's office, but it's not a hard and fast indicator. There's other reasons why some schools have more visits than others, and it has to do with acuity level, which I'll talk about in one second. So the acuity level is the severity of the needs and the level of nursing involvement that would be required to meet those health needs in the school setting. So a level one acuity level for a student would require skilled nursing services on almost a frequent or daily basis. That includes students with diabetes, students with life-threatening allergies, and they have medication available in the nurse's office. perhaps students with poorly controlled asthma. So all of these students would be considered level one acuity level, the greatest level of nursing services needed to meet their needs on a daily basis. Level two is
012students who require close monitoring on a regular basis. They may include students who need assistance with toileting or other personal care function. Most of our preschool students would fit into that level two without anything else, just the the idea that they're three and four years old. Students with a seizure history but no medications at school may also fit into a level two. So that would be the second level of acuity that our nurses address on a daily basis. The last two acuity levels are level three, which is a moderate nursing involvement. This would include students who need to be monitored on an occasional basis. Maybe there's some food restrictions. Maybe there's some nursing involvement from a 504 plan or homebound instruction, and that would be a level three or moderate nursing involvement. Level four would
013be the rest of the student population that has no specific medical need or medical communication, but requires, would require the nurses services on an occasional basis for first aid, headaches, those kinds of things. So when you total it all together, the four different acuity levels make up the entire population of the school setting. And so students fit into one of those four categories. So this is the other indicator that we look at when we look at our allocation of human resources in terms of the health services. Just to make one point on the different acuity levels, one thing that does impact this is the programs that we have, the magnet programs that we have in certain places. The past school year, we had preschool in certain schools, much more preschools that could indicate a higher
014level of acuity. Also, when we have our multiply disabled program in certain schools, that also can indicate a higher level of acuity in those schools. the programs and the program locations do impact the level of acuity. Our nursing staff levels proposed for this school year are similar to what they were last school year. They include having a nurse assigned to every elementary school and two nurses assigned to every middle school and every high school. In addition to that, I've highlighted them in yellow, we hire three part-time, four-day-a-week registered nurses that we utilize to offset schools that have a higher acuity level, a higher number of visits to try to balance things out in terms of a staffing level. That's why you see at the Switlik School, we have a part-time non-certified registered nurse four days
015a week to assist the full-time nurse that is at Switlik. Also, we have a nurse that splits time between Crawford and Elms two days a week each. And then one of the part-timers who is assigned to the high school who ultimately works under the direction of our school nurse coordinator. I've highlighted her there in red, Irene Manafra. Ms. Bonofra is a veteran nurse for our school district. She serves as our school nurse coordinator. She has shouldered an extremely heavy load, as have all of our nurses over the past two school years. They are professionals and have done a tremendous job. And together, they work together to try to provide the best level of health service for our students. A couple of points of emphasis for next school year. felt strongly about was we needed to
016improve the recruitment and retention of full-time and part-time school nurses and substitutes. We, this school board, has voted to move the daily substitute school nurse rate of pay in June from 150 to 175 per day and the district part-time substitute school nurse rate from 200 to 225. That certainly has helped in our recruiting endeavors. We will be fully staffed in terms of the district part-time substitute school nurses after tonight. Two of them, the two open positions we have are up for approval on the board agenda tonight and we also are approving two additional daily substitute nurses as well. So that has certainly helped. We also are going to have to continue to satisfy any pandemic related requirements as determined by this Board of Education and under the recommendation of the New Jersey Department of Health
017and Department of Education. We certainly... are looking forward to a school year with less restrictions and our nurses are more than up to the task of fulfilling those mandates. We also expect a greater uptick in the number of field trips for the school year returning to a more pre-pandemic level of trip scheduling and that often requires more nurses and to attend field trips for students who have unique health needs so we're anticipating that as a greater need and a point of emphasis. Also, completing all the required student health screenings is always a priority for us every year, including all of the screenings required for the district's growing preschool population, which has added a significant amount of health screenings that are going to be required for our elementary school nurses. And lastly, our nurses are directly
018involved in supporting the mental health concerns and playing an active role on the school's IEP, 504, INRS, and school climate teams. So this is the point of emphasis for next year. At this point, I will take any questions that the board has with regard to the nursing plan. Sure. You go first. So just so to be clear on how I read this and I first want to say that I think our nurses do a phenomenal job. They have a tough job and sometimes they're caught in the middle of very touchy topics. So I would just like to commend all of our nurses in all of our schools. But for some clarity, if the governor mandates that students need to be vaccinated to go or to attend school, This plan would enable the nurses to follow
019up to that mandate and check the status of our students' vaccine mandate and enforce that. As it is for our existing immunizations that are required. As having children in the school, you know that there are quite a few immunization requirements for students at various ages. And so those ones that are required, as it stands right now, there is both a medical exemption and a religious exemption. So for students, I can't say all of our students are vaccinated as far as... required immunizations because some students do have a medical exemption and religious exemption if the school if the governor was to if the state was going to pass a requirement for the covid vaccination for in covid vaccination that we would actually be obligated to follow the same rules but that would be the first vaccination
020that didn't have an exemption tied to it i would say thank you they are still responsible for maintaining and How should I say? Approving? Not approving. Physicals? Approving physicals? Athletic physicals? Yeah, so we've made some great changes with the physicals being offered on-site. This year, the first time we offered another date in August for students who weren't able to get a physical in early August. Our nurses are mobilized, both our middle school and high school nurses, to gather that physical information and to get it to our doctor for clearance as quickly as possible. I know... almost on a daily basis our athletic supervisors are taking the physicals that come into our school physician. So that process, we work as fast as we possibly can with it. One other question if nurses are required to go
021on field trips Would that be the home school nurse or would that be one of our substance? Yeah so the nurses only attend the field trips if there's a medical necessity for them to attend the field trip and when there is a medical necessity Typically what we do is the nurse who is the full-time nurse on-site there makes a determination that a nurse is necessary to go and either that nurse goes or we have one of the substitute or one of the district substitute nurses attend. Sometimes it's the sub-nurse and sometimes it's the regular nurse, depending on the medical needs of the student that's going and the comfort level. Okay. Anything else? Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Baginski. Also tonight, I will be sharing our draft district goals for the 22-23 school year and the
022draft Board of Ed goals that are for discussion, and we will finalize them in September. I'm going to go to the podium for this. So behind you, board members, you will see this presentation. Starting tonight, every year we set a vision for our school district. We work with our administrative team for a week in July, and this vision gets articulated. We brainstorm, we plan, we set goals, and we work towards this vision all school year. The vision this year is to focus in on three key areas, safety, relationship, and instruction. strengthening the core. We felt it was very important to look at what we currently have done in our core and make sure that we are strengthening that core to help our staff and our students. So it really made sense to ask that question.
023Well what is our core? What does it really look like? It brings us back to our mission statement. When Dr. Janko was here as the superintendent, I was part of the strategic team that helped create this mission statement. And it is work that grounds us every year. This mission statement, in my opinion, is very relevant to the times that we are in and is still consistently looked at. In fact, in a few weeks, we'll be meeting with all of our new staff, and every year, Mr. Rotante and I bring this right to them at the very onset of that training and that PD session. This is what should be guiding us through our year. This is our core. I'll give the board a moment to read it, and just please note the red key words
024that I feel really stand out for us here in the district. So hopefully you see what we see in this mission statement. It's very relevant. It is definitely grounding the work that we do on a daily basis in our schools. Also with the mission statement are some core beliefs and values that have also been articulated and all of these are on our district website. Again, I have put some language in bold to emphasize again the importance, the things that we hold important here in this district that we focus on. So again, I don't want to read every slide to you, so please just take a minute, look at what's in bold there. So I would say again. What's in bold is very much still relevant to what the work we do on a daily basis
025and what we value here in the districts. Academics, extracurriculars, collaboration. We value making sure our students have high expectations of themselves and that we have engaging curricula that helps to develop them as learners and that they learn about themselves. So that's our core, and that's our focus to make sure we stay true to what our core is. In regards to staying true to our core, this very... Well-known psychology based research from Maslow is still relevant today. This is something you learn about in psychology class and some of your education classes. I'm sure all of you have seen this from time to time, Maslow's hierarchy of needs. And it really still very much is relevant and applies to the work that we do here in the school. So again, part of that vision of setting the
026core is also recognizing to help students get to their highest levels of academic progress, We have to meet these basic needs before they can get there. They have to feel safe. They have to feel secure. They have to feel connected to their schools. So again, that is part of our mission statement, and that is our core. So this, I think, is again very relevant to what we say about our theme this year, safety, relationships, and instruction. So clearly, in order to get to those higher levels of academic growth, students must feel safe. Both physically and mentally, they must feel connected, our staff must feel connected, and our community must feel connected. Then we can get to differentiating instruction and greater levels of growth and academic achievement. That's the vision for this year. Supporting that vision
027are these goals. Safety, the physical safety. As we all know, it's paramount. It's on everybody's minds, especially in recent events. The physical safety of our buildings is key. And again, in order for students to achieve and for staff to feel comfortable, we have to ensure they feel safe. These are some of the areas that we will be focused on in our safety goal this year. It's implementing standard response protocols. You will learn more about that soon. And educating our parents and our staff and our students on that. We will continually assess our facilities and our protocols for safety. We will continue to prepare for a variety of scenarios. You can never have enough scenarios that you are preparing for. We will continue to collaborate with our security and our police department, and we'll continue to
028train our staff and raise those levels this year. The other portion of our safety goal focuses on the emotional and mental health of our students. Some of you may have noticed that there was, again, a law that the governor had signed requiring school districts to develop a threat assessment teams for not this year but the following year. And I had communicated with the board earlier that we were already there. We were already working on this. And we do have a lot of work we've been doing and will continue to do and strengthen this year around our threat assessment. protocols, paying attention even more and focusing more on identifying the signs of individuals at risk, continuing to expand resources for our students and families for help, to seek help, and expand our remedial measures and our
029restorative practices. So those are some of the areas we'll be focused on in emotional and mental health under our safety goal. The next goal is around curriculum and instruction. Relationship building, right? So we're moving from safety to relationship building for our students. Again, in order for our students to achieve at higher levels and to be available to us to learn, they need to feel comfortable in their schools. So we want to expand ways that they can connect and engage to their schools. We want students to better understand our students' interests and backgrounds and provide opportunities that provide them voice to be heard. We want to provide opportunities for students to connect with peers and teachers to foster a sense of belonging. And we also will continue our use of the CASEL model. We've been doing
030that for years. You'll see behind you again, this is the model. Very important to build these skills into what we do academically with students so that they can begin to know themselves as a learner. Be self-aware as a learner. What are my strengths? What are my weaknesses? What can I do about my weaknesses? Self-management, social awareness, how are they connecting to others? Relationship skills and responsible decision-making. That's what the CASEL model does, and our teachers have been versed in this for several years now. We will continue to expand that and deepen that. It's just as important as our academic curriculum so that students know themselves as learners. Engagement. So again, for our students to feel comfortable and be involved in their learning, they need to be engaged. So through project learning, we'll continue to develop
031a felt need for learning and connecting learning across disciplines. So they see the connection of why they need to know certain things. Collaborate and cooperate in learning activities. We had been away from some of that due to the pandemic. We want to bring back our collaborative groups, our more hands-on experiences, such as our labs and all of that. So that's a huge focus for us this year as well under this goal. And building choice into our learning. For example, one area is physical education. You have some students who perhaps don't want to learn a certain sport, but would like to learn something else that's just as physical, so there'll be a little bit more choice involved in their physical activities. That's just one example in this goal. So, relationship building, engaging students will lead to
032higher levels of growth and rigor. That allows us then to continually stretch our learners and our students to higher levels of learning. And we do make sure our curriculum is ready for that, differentiation is ready for that in the classroom with our teachers. We are part of a grant for differentiation at the elementary level this year, a state grant, which will help us get some additional training, create lesson plans in order to be more open-ended, critical thinking, and continue to expand our problem-based learning initiatives at our high schools. And create opportunities, obviously, for students to take more responsibility. in their learning and know themselves as learners so that they can reach those higher levels. So yes, we have to address learning loss, although I will say our students are doing well, our teachers are amazing,
033but we also need to continually reach higher levels of academic growth. We need to continually prepare our students to push harder into our academics and achieve. So, Homeschool Connection is another goal for this year and our goal will focus on families and community connections. Working to ensure our communication tools are accessible to all of our community. We'll be working to ensure there is regular two-way meaningful communication with our families and our staff about student learning. And we will also focus on clear, frequent communication about school events and opportunities for involvement through newsletters, emails, and from others from the schools and from teachers. We will also create multiple opportunities for families and events for engagement for parents, such as one example is centered on... parent-centered workshops. We want to bring all of that back, and we
034also want to add to it the connection to our families and community. The human resource goal for this year will focus on staffing, obviously, as there is no secret here that there are tremendous shortages of teachers and staff and employees in school districts and obviously in other businesses as well. So the HR department, overseen by Mr. Baginski, will continue to recruit, especially for those difficult positions, and be creative in how we recruit. Manage recruiting and hiring and onboarding our substitutes as you know this has been a huge initiative for us this summer HR department has been extremely busy our administrative teams have been extremely busy recruiting substitutes The district has now hired for in-house substitutes. We are no longer using an outsource service So I do put another plug in people. Please apply to be
035a substitute. We'd love to have you we will be Continuing to do that, we're in pretty good shape, but we, again, a huge undertaking, but an exciting undertaking. Expand information sharing regarding our new health benefits. And one component of that you'll see in the last bullet is very exciting news is that we will for the first time have an educational, I mean an employee assistance program available through our insurance. So part of our goal is to ensure that our staff is informed about it and knows about their options. So the last goal for the school district this year, for the 22-23 school year, focuses on finance, transportation, and facilities. We'll continue to prioritize, as we always do, new facility projects. We have the preschool grant, and as you know, we will be installing all new
036preschool playgrounds at each of our elementary schools. And in fact, we have started just this week, I believe, right at Rosenauer. So we're well underway on that goal. We will continue to advocate for equitable funding from the Department of Education, especially around our unique circumstances for non-public busing in Jackson and how that affects our budget. And we will continue, and you see it all the time on the agenda, to research available grants to bring further opportunities for programming for our students within the district. And we will continue to monitor upgrades within the Transportation Department. for safety and efficiency. And you've seen that through the last year and will continue to do that this year. So that concludes our district goals for the school year. Before I move to the board goals that are in draft
037for discussion, are there any specific questions from the board? Anyone? Seeing none, I'll move on to the discussion for our Board of Education goals this year. So I did send home some information, some suggestions, just for a place for us to start tonight to have our conversation. So you'll see a few slides of suggestions for goals for the board based on feedback from you and input in relationship to some of the things that we had talked about or suggested. So typically, we recommend three to four goals for the board to focus on for each school year. Fiscal should always be one of them. We know that that's a big job of the board. And in this goal, the board will advocate, identify, and implement revenue-generating and cost-saving endeavors for the district. And you'll see some
038of the things listed here that are suggested for things, activities that would relate to this goal. which is to advocate and support the district administration in seeking better fiscal approaches, again, as I had just said, to our unique circumstances for non-public. I believe we're well on our way to begin that or further expand that, and the board and the administration will develop a budget that addresses the fiscal challenges from S2 and, again, continue to advocate. at the state level for S2 funding to not affect Jackson School District. And the board will continue to support the grant process that we have here in searching and approving grants, again, to expand our programs. The second suggested area is curricular. The board will support and monitor the district's commitment to strengthening opportunities to improve student achievement and progress.
039We know we are all here for this for students. And there are two areas that I feel the board can take action in in these areas and show. Through reviewing the state of the schools, we do the state of the schools presentation at the board level, having the opportunity to see our district data, talk about our district data, and then also provide feedback on curricular opportunities to improve student achievement. We have our curriculum board committee that will also report out here at the board level, and that's a great opportunity to talk about curricular things and provide feedback. Communication. And we know how important communication is. So you'll see here the board will support and monitor efforts to further strengthen communication and engagement with families and community. Rather than read all of these, I'll just point
040out, obviously, we want to continue to... really expand and show off our students at the board meetings and bring more presentations to our board meetings. Another suggestion here is to continue to strengthen community involvement through outreaching to all stakeholders in our community. And then utilizing the committee structure that we have in place and really strengthening that. You hopefully saw that and will hear some of that tonight with some committee reports that are coming out and continue to live stream our board meetings. and events so that our community can stay informed. And then finally, continue to utilize the district chain of command and communication method while responding to community concerns about district operations or student needs. So we ensure that whatever you're hearing from the community gets passed along to the administration and for the administration
041to address it. And then finally, what's very important is that every year we report out to you on the district goals, mid-year and end-of-year, and that the board also reviews their goals, mid-year and end-year, and make that a goal to ensure that that is happening. So it's progress on our goals and progress monitoring. So those are the four areas suggested, and some of the activities suggested underneath them, the actions. So I open the floor for discussion, questions, and conversation from the board. Anything? So we did well? Yes. We did well. This is very doable. Okay. Good. Good. Well, that's great. And, you know, I look forward to working together to achieve these goals. Thank you very much. I just have one more comment on my superintendent's report. I want to get back to my seat,
042and then I'll turn it back to you, Mr. Walsh. Got it. Thank you. So, okay, finally, I just wanted to remind our families and our public about our schedules being released. So August 23rd on the portal, middle school and high school schedules will be released. Our elementary class placements will be visible in the portal on August 24th, and our bus passes will be available August 31st on the portal. All of those dates, they will be available after 9 a.m. on our portal. Just as a reminder, that's also posted on our district website. So with that, that concludes my superintendent report. Mr. Walsh, thank you. Thank you. Very informative. Standing committee reports, state and county school boards rep. Next meeting will be October 3rd for the county. Thank you. Parent group liaison will meet again in
043October. Special education. We have a steering committee August 29th, 2022. Scholarship, I will meet with the new guidance director and we will start planning for next June scholarship night. Building and grounds, there's a lot going on. The first thing you could say is there's a brand new tennis court out there. Funny blue color, but it's a brand new tennis court. Okay, we have new paving. Over there at Memorial, we're getting rid of some of those sinkholes that develop and we get rain. It looks real nice over there. They're going to be working on a track over at Memorial. They've completed Switlik emergency lighting. Over in transportation, they've repaired the restrooms. In all the kitchens, they've done upgrades. In Johnson, they have done trailer upgrades. McAuliffe they have put in Google cabinets and eyewash stations. The
044ESIP program is on the last stages of sign-offs. The EV project has gotten a go-ahead on grants for the garbage the electric garbage trucks and charging stations so that's progressing. The fuel depot repairs are ongoing and constantly being tested. Next up is Budget and finance. The next budget cycle will begin in October. Transportation. Transportation met last week. We went over private school busing. Cul-de-sacs and some of the solutions or problems that we're having with cul-de-sacs. Some of the cul-de-sacs just don't fit a big bus. Ban buses for the high schools. A late busing plan which will make it more effective and we'll be able to transport more students. MyStop is a software program which plans stops to improve the safety of the students and the efficiency of each one of the routes. We have departmental
045upgrades whether it be with staffing or software. We got preschool busing aids, which will be coming on board as we expand our preschool system. Curriculum and curriculum committee. Curriculum is looking to meet in September. We're just finalizing a date. Policy committee. Policy met on August 9th. Myself, I was in attendance. I'm the committee chair. Mr. Walsh, board president, was in attendance. Ms. Rivera, board vice president, was in attendance. Mr. Baginski, Assistant Superintendent, was in attendance, and Ms. Pramilia, Superintendent, was in attendance. The committee discussed and recommended for first read the adoption of the Strauss-Esme revised and or mandated policies. Some of those were the high school student representative to the Board of Education that's mandated. This policy codifies our current practice. Quorum that was revised. The Board of Education website accessibility, that was revised and
046mandated. Every Student Succeed Act was revised and mandated. Care of school property, that policy was revised and mandated. School district issued student identification cards. The district will be using a sticker to place, to be placed on the existing ID cards for middle school and high school students. The printing template for the future cards will include the information that we will be providing you on that sticker. Dress and grooming for support staff, that's new. And then student journalism is new and mandated. The next meeting will be held on September 1st at 5.30 p.m. Thank you. Thank you. The enrollment and study committee has not met. We will meet someday. No need for that now. We'll see with all the building going on. Okay. I need a motion for approval of the policy and regulations first reading.
047Motion. Any discussion? Seeing no discussion, roll call. Mrs. Baracus? Yes. Mrs. Cass? Yes. Dr. Osman? Yes. Mr. Palmieri? Yes. Mrs. Rivera? Yes. Mr. Walsh? Yes. I need a motion for approval of the minutes. The official board meetings July 20th, 2022. Closed session meeting. Official board meeting July 20th, 2022. Committee of the whole and business meeting. Motion. Discussion? Seeing no discussion, roll call. Mrs. Baracus? Yes. Mrs. Cass? Yes. Dr. Osman? Yes. Mr. Palmieri? Yes. Mrs. Rivera? Yes. Mr. Walsh? Yes. Need a motion for approval of the bill list. Motion. Second. Discussion? Seeing no discussion, roll call. Mrs. Baracus? Yes. Mrs. Cass? Dr. Osman? Yes. Mr. Palmieri? Yes. Mrs. Rivera? Yes. Mr. Walsh? Yes. Need a motion for approval of the Treasurer's and Board Secretary's report. Motion. Second. Discussion? Seeing no discussion, roll call. Mrs. Baracus? Yes.
048Mrs. Cass? Yes. Dr. Osman? Yes. Mr. Palmieri? Yes. Mrs. Rivera? Yes. Mr. Walsh? Yes. Need a motion to open public forum on agenda items only we will hold another Public forum during the meeting for any other questions the public forum will be for questions on the agenda only motion Please sign in state your name and whether or not you are a Jackson resident Each person is allowed a maximum of five minutes to speak No person may speak more than once on a topic until all others have been heard Gus Acevedo, 18, Bryant Drive, Jackson. I asked the president to please distribute some materials I handed out. Being done. It's being done. Okay, great. Okay, there were a lot of issues all at once. I hope I can touch at least 32% of them. You have
049before you, I made copies. what would be the first Jackson Jaguar Journal. Within that journal, much of what's mentioned tonight was mentioned then. Trips, victories in sport. One of the things is that the mood of the school, as the superintendent asked to promote, was cohesive, unified. You wanted to come to school. You felt proud of being part of the community that was the Jackson community of education. Now, the thing is, when you talk about creativity, one of the things teachers don't need is to be administering another test. So I ask the board, through the president, to please try to one day say, not tonight. We're not going to test not this. Teachers need time to be creative. Okay, that's the one thing that you need. And it's not wasted. Now, let me just, one of
050the things is the trips outside of the school district are not only humane, enhancing for the person, but also help them when they go to college. Now, we were introduced to... The musicians from Philadelphia, a guy named Ormandy, Eugene Ormandy was the director. One of my art teachers introduced me to Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol. I mean, that was amazing. I was introduced by one of my coaches to Chuck Bednarik, great Eagles player. I don't know. Nobody here is old enough to know. Anyway, the thing is, I hope that you take the time to look at this because the advisor, and I don't think you'll have time, the advisor and the administration said we don't want it to be boring. We don't want this journal to be boring. We don't want it to be basic. We
051want it to be challenging. We want questions from students and faculty. They were serious. It was a serious beginning of a school district. Like this year, every year you begin again. It's the magic of education. It's like giving birth over and over again. And for people like Mike Walsh and myself, we never graduate. We seem to be still in school. But I will tell you this. This magazine, this Jaguar Journal reports the first victory. How proud we were when we beat Point Pleasant Beach. the first death of a student, you know, Steve Boeschman. I would like for all of us to understand that as board members, administrators, faculty, we need to allow the teachers and the students to invent the school district every year. Invite them to ask, where can we go? I mean, you
052should promote. innovation. Don't just tell them we're going on a trip, but what trips do you want to go on? I don't want to keep babbling here, but my concern was that you look at this and see how it mentions the first superintendent at the time, the new superintendent, and how nothing really changes, but everything changes all the time. I used to tell my students, never stop learning and never stop asking questions. That's why I'm here. I ask questions a lot. It is our duty to begin a year. And the one thing I'm concerned about is the attack on libraries. And this is serious for me. Librarians, it's going on nationally. They're pulling books out. This cannot happen in Jackson. I ask the President and the Board Superintendent to please... talk to our attorney, who
053is a master educator himself, to please be ahead of the game when it comes to this drive to pull books out, condemn books. We cannot have the kind of education that is free or democratic if we allow fear to run the school district. Okay, there should be no banned books in the school district, Every book should be allowed. Thank you very much. Are there any additional agenda-only questions? Seeing no one come forward, I need a motion to close public forum. Motion. All in favor? Aye. Motion to move finance. Motion. Discussion? Seeing no discussion, roll call. Mrs. Baracus? Yes. Mrs. Cass? Yes. Dr. Osman? Yes. Mr. Palmieri? Yes. Mrs. Rivera? Yes. Mr. Walsh? Yes. Motion to move facilities. Motion. Second. Discussion? Seeing no discussion, roll call. Mrs. Baracus? Yes. Mrs. Cass? Dr. Osman? Yes. Mr. Palmieri?
054Yes. Mrs. Rivera? Yes. Mr. Walsh? Yes. Motion to move programs. Motion. Second. Discussion. Seeing no discussion, roll call. Mrs. Baracus? Yes. Mrs. Cass? Yes. Dr. Osman? Yes. Mr. Palmieri? Given that legislation regarding COVID-19 vaccination mandates in schools are not enacted and are not something I support, I am no vote for programs number two. Our nursing plan is well developed, however I cannot support the piece that would give school nurses the authority to enforce such a mandate. I vote yes for all other programs. Thank you. Mrs. Rivera? Yes. Mr. Walsh? Yes. Motion to move students. Motion. Discussion? Seeing no discussion, roll call. Mrs. Baracus? Yes. Mrs. Cass? Yes. Dr. Osman? Yes. Mr. Palmieri? Yes. Mrs. Rivera? Yes. Mr. Walsh? Yes. Motion to move personnel. Motion. Discussion? Second. Discussion? Seeing none, roll call. Mrs. Baracus? Yes. Mrs.
055Cass? Yes. Dr. Osman? Yes. Mr. Palmieri? Yes. Mrs. Rivera? Yes. Mr. Walsh? Yes. I need a motion to open public forum on any topic pertaining to the Board of Education. Motion. Second. Please sign in state your name and whether or not you are a Jackson resident each person is allowed a maximum of five minutes to speak No person may speak more than once on a topic until all others have been heard Same person as before Gus as a video 18 Brian try The one thing I don't want to get dark the thing is we have in place drills for dangerous invaders into the school district, armed invaders. And I think most school districts are very good at it. But Jackson has one concern that very often it neglects. And in 1960-something, we had a major
056fire in Jackson. Right now, there's a lack of water. Trees are dry. People are losing their lawn. I think our school district should educate. Kids about what can cause a fire or make it go out of control and also how to save themselves if there's a fire in their home or in their yard, in their barbecue. And I ask also our attorney to please prepare for something that hasn't happened, may never happen, My concern about athletes, the gender confusion or gender interpretation, before we have problems, and Mr. Walsh, you're an expert in athletics, we should create a standing sports committee, not an ad hoc committee, but a standing committee, and get ahead of the game. Find out. Who can compete? How can they compete? What can be accepted as a record or as an achievement
057by an athlete? And what we will not accept, not when it's become a controversy, but rather before. Sit down in a committee, decide by the board what we will tolerate, what we will accept, and what we will not accept. Because once the problem is here, you'll be repairing it, and that's too late. Thank you. Are there any other questions? Seeing no one come forward, I need a motion to close public forum. Motion. Second. All those in favor, aye. Aye. Board comments? I just wanted to thank Mrs. Formilli for her presentations and our goals for... sharing them with the public the district goals and the board goals both of which I think are attainable and I think we do have a great group up here I just want to wish everybody the last few days of
058summer I know school starting in a couple weeks so I know the kids are anxiously waiting to come back other than that everybody have a great night I would also like to thank Miss Pramili Mr. Bruginski, Mr. Rotanti, and everybody on the administrative staff, you guys are all phenomenal. Thank you. Your support is unquestionably through the roof, and I want to thank you all for that. And for everyone else, enjoy the last few weeks. School is starting sooner than you know it, so let's get ready. We're excited, and enjoy these last couple weeks. I hope everyone is enjoying the last couple weeks of summer. I know we're starting to get into our sports for the season, so I wish everyone good luck in their tryouts and starting up. And, you know, just looking forward to
059starting the school year. And as I know, I'm sure the kids aren't so anxious, but I am. So everyone enjoy their night, and thank you for those who are watching at home and for those that came this evening. Thank you all for coming out tonight. Just like everybody else said, I wish everybody a nice smooth start to the school year. It will be nice to come back to a more normalized school year. So I'm sure it will be a nice return. Thank you for coming out. Thank you for all coming out this evening and those who are joining us via live stream. Thank you for your input, your comments and presentations. Have a great rest of the summer. Good night. Thank you all. Mr. Acevedo, you brought up some bad memories of mine because I
060lived through those fires back in the day. Don't worry about it. I'll talk to you later. There's two jobs in this district that I would never want to do. Okay, one of them is to be a school nurse. They do a great job They got a lot on their plate and they really handle business. Of course. The other one would be a bus driver Have a good summer. Bye motion to adjourn motion all those in favor aye