001please welcome everyone for our education meeting right carpet township for the month of april if i'm not on now i'm on i will repeat welcome everyone good evening and welcome to the board of education meeting for the month of april i call the meeting to order mr smith please on thursday january 9 2025 notice of this meeting was emailed to the press in the mainland journal notice was also delivered that day today harvard township clerk and posted on the bulletin board and township hall roll call please mr byers president mrs gilbert floyd here mr ireland here mr price here mr seppi here mrs sullivan mrs sloggy here ms hyman here and mr dell barker here would everyone please rise for our flag salute and please remain standing for a moment of silence for mrs dolly
002flanagan a former cook in our district who passed away about two weeks ago thank you attention salute i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you very much we need a motion to approve a minutes items 4.1 through 4.2 so made their second any discussion roll call please mr byers yes mrs gilbert floyd yes mr ireland yes mr price yes mr seppi yes mrs sullivan mrs sloggy yes ms hyman yes and mr delabarre yes dr giulio our superintendent's report please thank you good evening everyone and our superintendent's report of for the month of april we will begin it'll be short and sweet and to the point but i'd like to give
003an update on our district learning goals and we'll get moving right away under student achievement we're proud to present career days to our students and they were very successful from grades four through 12 that we attended and then the elementary schools had their little internal one so it was really cool to see all the things that were going on STEAM Expo last week over at Fernwood Avenue Middle School was really cool we had a guest speaker Dr. Duhan came to share her expertise on STEAM and students were able to experiment all through the night EHC HS indoor percussion won the bronze medal over the weekend and our district choral festival took place as well eighth grade dialogue occurred at Absheekan Middle School a couple weeks ago and our students our student was very very poised
004and mature and I know Mrs. Hyman is very very proud of her as she represented Acre Township School District for Alder we had another student from Fernwood Avenue Middle School and the students were able to Wood which they did a great job and JSLA testing is beginning when we get back from break and our girls golf team girls golf team Landon County champions just what I want to share and highlight here is that we have a communications Academy at the high school and slave all Swiss label complex has created a miss Moss has created a elementary communications Academy and they sent me four videos this afternoon and they are so cute I have to I will just share one with you but where we store every day what does safety have to do with soar
005let's find out how we stay safe by walking calmly staying to the right side and keeping our hands and feet to ourselves well hallway safety that's how you stay safe in the hallway we can be sick in the bathroom by washing our hands flushing and keeping the space clean the classroom we stay safe by walking our hands to ourselves keeping our desk clean they do it stay safe own actions responsibly wasn't that so cool and what about is they created the script they acted it out the filming part of it is very similar to what goes on the high school but what works here is the students sharing with their fellow classmates the message of the importance of soar so they've empowered their classmates to follow their lead so I'm very very proud of them
006it was an awesome job that they did putting this together and I just hot off the press I needed to share that put smiles on our face says it's gonna start again okay moving on the climate and culture and you got a little taste of the climate and culture their smiles and what's going on in our school as far as expectations of a positive school environment but autism acceptance week was this week we honored our paraprofessionals we recognized assistant principals students of the week were recognized geography fair at Miller school is really cool they're gonna need news more space next year but all the the students representing the countries that they are studying or even the countries that they are from it was very enlightening to see they had info and information that they shared
007some shared some information that they shared they had info and information that they shared some shared foods and the culture so it was really cool cool event and also at that night outside in the hallway was the United States state poster contest and students picked the state learned about it and shared their posters and also over to the left there is principal for day for the day at Davenport school and then community partnerships we thank all those to participate in our careers days the Atlantic County Sheriff's Department was with us I attended a pace parent meeting last week the dr. Graham ran for the incoming pace students and there were outgoing Pace students there that that spoke about other program and how great that is and I emphasize to the parents that you know I
008don't want to say would sometimes we take advantage of the programs that we have but know that the program such as the pace program that we have at our High School is rare and unique that we were able to offer that to our students not everyone has that and as you know that's based on a grant that Dr. Graham receives each and every year because she her program is is a model program for the state of New Jersey so we hope that we continue to get get that grant but the services and the opportunities that we offer our students who are not college-bound who are gonna have the ability to go out at their senior year to get hands-on work experience is unique for a public high school so we we we treasure that opportunity
009the pace business meeting occurred last week on Friday and we write in this room we had business leaders in the community come and meet with with the school district with supervisors and directors that deal with CTE program but we had students come in and share their experiences in the work field with the business folks so that's that community partnership building that we are doing and will continue to do as that program expands and words gets out word gets out with the business leaders who were very quite impressed with with our students and the program same day that morning we had the Atlantic County Association of School Administrators which was big acronym for County Superintendents and right in this room we had a very impressive luncheon slash meeting where the county government was here and all
010the County Superintendents mr. Beck is here so I can brag about the services and the accommodations and great hospitality that he and his staff present it to the county they were very very impressed it was a very rainy day when superintendents came to to the building had a park out in a designated area the Alder Avenue wingman which were the students in the purple shirts and mrs. Hyman would be proud again those students greeted the superintendents with umbrellas right at their cars walk the student walk the superintendents down the the sidewalks it greeted them like very very mature leaders at the door and when they when I was in here already and they'd walk through the doorway they were just like wow those kids were great whoa look at this place and they're very impressed
011with a Harvard Township food was great Tom the service was awesome so I appreciate you helping me make this place look great as it is so thank you very much and that's a might be a once a year thing but we were very to do that moving on the district bilingual parent coordinators they assisted parents in different languages in communication and they used something called the voice translation system and there was about five different languages that were translated Lanny County Prevention Resources we thank them for their services and the HT PD who came in and had just recently I was walking in they were walking out lunch with students here at Alder so thank you for doing that strategic planning update we had a meeting on March 25th and we narrowed it down between the
012survey and community participation narrowed down to some topics that we put out just put his follow-up survey out he didn't if you got that email that surveys important to us that you take that survey so we could start narrowed things down for April 30th that's when we come back from spring break meeting at six o'clock in the lower cafeteria if you were unable to make the first event you are welcome to join us for the second event but we are stretching it to strategically planning the future of a carpet Township School District so it's it's a great opportunity to voice your opinion if you will and your ideas that's what we want ideas ideas and please feel free I'll back it up again to go to the a cover Township School District superintendent's corner for
013if you want to see the presentation that I shared with the community and see what the the three highlighted items are that's all on the screen in the superintendent's corner under strategic plan all updated just save the date for Monday for our golfers out there anyone who wants to work the golf tournament that a carpet Township ed foundation sponsors each and every year 35 times now and that money is for mini grants for teachers and student scholarships Eagle Fest 2025 will be on Saturday September 27th I'll continue to share that date because the more the merrier and if you have a table that you you know want to participate by participate by sharing your table your vendors foods whatever you have you're welcome and also Alder Avenue proudly presents the Beetlejuice performance which will be
014in May so mark your calendars from May 9th 10th or the 11th to see Beetlejuice and Alder Avenue will present it but it's performed at Fernwood Avenue Middle School okay and we get to our stories soaring staff transportation department Mr. Du could not be with us this evening or bus driving he's been recognized but our food services department Mr. Beck is here and I'll call him up to come on and say a few words about someone from a cafeteria staff well thank you very much for the kind words world-class service doesn't just happen so you need staff around you to to make sure that everyone is focused on an outstanding dining experience and I like to call Candace. up here to congratulate her we call it candy Candace is a little bit too formal Candace
015is our candy is our is our bedrock associate for our Miller School Candy's been with us for five years and Candy's like the engine that makes things happen for an ever-growing breakfast program over at the Dr. Miller School and we totally appreciate that and I appreciate your efforts and everyone in that building really does too. so especially Linda thank you very much I really do appreciate it thank you very much congratulations congratulations candy and thank you for all that you do the students appreciate you teachers and we do as well so we're all in this together all in for kids and giving that smile each and every day to look forward to it I know so thank you thank you for your efforts all right we're gonna move on to our video and I'll be
016ready to introduce our next presenter. Thank You Alan digging that music there good job buddy okay that concludes my portion of the report I'm going to introduce Miss Moss who is the assistant superintendent an overseas curriculum and testing and instruction all that fun stuff and she has a mandatory state report that she has to share with you. I haven't used PowerPoint in a long time I know all right you can't the state sends a template and it doesn't transfer but it's fine all right so the information that we're going to see tonight is all information that has been presented to the board in the public already so the school performance reports kind of take all the data that we present throughout the school year and compiles it into one report it's a great one-stop shop
017to find out all the pieces for the district so this is actually for last school year so this was 23-24. results so you have already seen everything that we're about to review in here it's just packaged all together into this report and then when we return from spring break we will go into our state testing and then we'll have those that information come through next year around this time we'll be presenting out about that so I know it's confusing so it's 23 24 so this is all last year so the school performance reports like I said are really a great tool for the community and for stakeholders to really get a big broad idea about the district as a whole and each individual school it has lots of deal detailed information on demographics our staff
018our ratios any and all information that you have about the district as a whole so you can find the school performance report at a Google search or here at the NJ school data org it is also on the main page of our district website so you are able to you access that it will be updated now tomorrow so what does it include like I said it's an overview it gives demographics it shows student growth college and career readiness it tracks our graduation pathways our graduation rate all the different factors throughout the school what our climate and environment is like and all of the pieces that are required for school accountability under CUSAC there is chronic absenteeism data in here I'm going to show you a little bit of that in just a second we're going
019to show three year trends now which I'm happy to say you're gonna see a good trend for us in that area and that there is six year graduation rates that that are there but we actually have the five so here's our student enrollment over the past three years it looks like such a dramatic drop it's not as dramatic as it makes it seem and then it's broken down into our categories as you can see even though our total enrollment is going down some of our need is going up we know that this year we also have hit a new demographic for economically disadvantaged so it was forty five point five last school year and I believe that we are above or at fifty percent right now fifty one percent right now so even though our
020numbers went down a little bit our needs are increasing so the student growth overview so in fourth to seventh grade in math and fourth to eighth grade in ELA students and teachers are given a student growth percentile based on test scores year to year you're going to see that again this is the same report that I reported out last summer when we talked about the state testing so these numbers are the same we remained flat with our growth there's nothing in 21-22 because of COVID next you're going to see our achievement data again this is from the NJSLA from last year here you're going to see that we did go up a little bit in in our statewide assessment goals and we were able to meet them last year we came out of targeted assistance
021for Davenport and I'm very happy and Ms. Karubno is very happy to say that we received notification that we're going to be out of that this year at the high school as well so after this school year we will have no one under state monitoring thank you I'm going to go ahead and start the presentation and then we'll get started so we're going to go ahead and start the presentation and then we'll get started graduation rates and pathways our graduation rate remains steady remains really high and then of course we also have our five-year graduation rate trends for our students that that do stay with us past 18 and we are always above the state average with this chronic absenteeism so this is one of those topics that we talk about a lot with our
022administration we've worked really hard over the last year and we're really excited to be able to get to the state level and we're really excited to be able to get to the state level and we're really excited to be able to get to the state level and we've worked hard over the past few years to make sure that our students are coming to school there's been that social media graphics that were sent out the teachers working really hard communicating with families trying to make sure that our students are coming to school and understand the importance of being present so in this case you want your numbers to go down and our chronic absenteeism rate did go down really substantially last school year so that is something to be very very proud of and we are
023below the state average now and then this is just broken down by grade level college and career readiness so this just goes through those demographics of which of our students are entering which paths of learning obviously we have seen an increase in our CTE concentrators and that will continue to grow we have new programs that dr. Graham started this year so that percentage should go up but we have 45.2 percent of 11th and 12th graders enrolled in dual enrollment coursework and I think that that is just such a huge piece of data to look at because by enrolling in those courses they're getting that college level education in high school and coming out with credits that can be applied if they go into a two-year or four-year institution student safety so mr. West has reported
024out on this information here we have our number of institutions that are enrolled in high school and we have a number of institutions that are enrolled in high school and we have a number of students incidents across the district and our early childhood education so as you know we have continued to grow over the past three years and we offer full day preschool and full day kindergarten no more half-day in our district student supports and services so this is our ratios that we offer to our students to make sure that we are meeting the new the needs of all of our students in different areas from our CST members to our high school students and our high school students to make sure that we are meeting the new the needs of all of our students
025in our high school students and our high school students to nurses administrators and of course our teachers so this is just a report out to nurses administrators and of course our teachers so this is just a report out like I said last school year we were targeted with our high school population so we have to complete what's called an annual school plan we have to collect a lot of data implement interventions and show substantial growth to close an achievement gap within a designated area so high school staff has worked diligently with administration to ensure that we are really meeting those targeted support and improvement goals and like I said we received notification this winter that we have achieved those goals and we will be out of that status for next year so how can you
026get involved come to strategic planning it's a great way for us to get feedback and information you can reach out to your principals through your parents clubs you can also go into the stakeholder engagement guide There's also on the last slide here a survey that parents or community members can take to give feedback to the NJDOE on school performance reports if there's more information that you would want to see in the future. That is it. So thank you very much. Okay. Any questions for Ms. Moss? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Delbarca. That completes the superintendent's report for April. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Gruccio and Ms. Moss for your reports. We appreciate all of the efforts and work everyone has put into this. At this time, we have our student representative report. It's all yours, folks.
027Okay. Good evening, everyone. So starting at Swift's Label, students at Swift's Label had the opportunity to learn about a variety of interesting jobs at the career fair, which was hosted on April 4th. And some of the jobs featured were surgeon, a Disney game designer, electrical worker, chef, and a sales assistant. And the kids had a great time envisioning many career path possibilities. And then on to Davenport Next. They had an early celebration for Earth Day. So Ms. Hoyes, Ms. Mariellos, and Mrs. Blair's kindergarten classes, they all kind of united together to teach their students lessons on Earth Day. So they taught their students the beauty of Earth and how to protect Earth. Some specifics that they taught their students was how to tell the difference between trash and recycling and different types of recycling. And
028then they had a little celebration for Earth Day. So they had a little celebration for Earth Day. And then they had a little celebration for Earth Day. So they had a little celebration for Earth Day. Because there are different sections within that. And how to classify them just to teach the students from a early age how to get involved and start protecting the planet, since Earth Day is next week we will be on spring break they took the initiative to teach them this early on. Moving on to Miller. So students in Ms. Riccardi's and Ms. Kiner's classes basically got to hear from a guest speaker from Stockton University who shared impactful stories about Holocaust survivors, who actually settled in South Jersey. So I thought this was really cool. and they started poultry farms right here
029in EHT. And one of the most moving parts was seeing a handmade artifact from Auschwitz, which was created by the Roma in 1944. And later it was passed on to survivor Jack Lewis. And his family actually donated it to Stockton's Holocaust Research Center after he passed away. And the students also additionally took part in the Butterfly Project. And this is a program made to honor the 1.5 million Jewish children who were lost during the Holocaust. And then additionally at Miller, as previously mentioned, they had a geography fair. So all of the students were paired or they were able to select their own countries. And essentially they were to make a poster board and bring in decorations or food dishes. Some of the decorations included traditional clothing or flags. So each student represented this country and
030they had to give oral presentations to people as they walked around. So some information they shared about their countries was geography, cultural traditions, famous landmarks and interactions with the environment that the countries typically have with the environment. So it was a great opportunity for students to develop this global awareness, share their own cultural traditions with their other students and learn new traditions from other students as well. Okay, moving on to Alder. So Alder Symphony directed by Ms. Wyatt and Mrs. Donji traveled to New York City over the weekend on Saturday and they competed in the Big Apple Classic with competition. A huge congratulations to them because they placed second. And then onto our other middle school, Fernwood. Mr. Hammond's class, they had their annual 1920s day. So essentially students, they all came dressed in a
0311920s attire, they brought in food and they listened to jazz music to immerse themselves within their history lessons and kind of live a day back in the American history past and bring their in-class lessons to their own lives and really appreciate that. And finally, the High School. Thank you. So yearly high school students are selected in every state to attend the 5-day Girls or Boys State Summer Program and it's hosted by the American Legion Auxiliary. It's a prestigious and immersive mock government program that gives students hands-on experience with what it's like to meet in councils, function in one of two political parties, run for elected offices, campaign, and more. And the delegates are also assigned to cities, towns, and counties. to model government systems in the US. Last year, both Marcus and I did get
032the opportunity to attend these programs, and we both thoroughly enjoyed them. I was elected as one of the senators for my party, and I ended up helping write mock legislation to protect students from gun violence and other foreign dangers in school. And so this year, our delegates for Boys States are Juniors Carter Chu, Alan Mejia, Andres Vallejo-Main, and then our delegates for Girls State are Juniors Monica Eskandar and Kaylee Paskalaitz, and our alternates are Juniors Samaya Alam and Tasnia Hack. And then moving on to some other events at the high school, yesterday, the AP Gov class, we did have a field trip to Eastern State Penitarium. It was actually very interesting. This is one of the oldest prisons that is in American history. So we went there, we were able to walk around and see
033the cells and kind of learn about the evolution of the law system and how incarceration worked throughout the country. And then we also went to the American Institute of Public Health, which is a place that's really important because it's a place that's really important to learn about time and just the evolution of American history. And the cells, they were actually all solitary confinement at first, and they were supposed to, each of the inmates were supposed to learn a trade, like, by themselves. And it was very interesting. They told stories of how, like, young children, like 11-year-olds and 10-year-olds, were incarcerated for, like, years within these cells without contact with anybody. So it was just interesting to learn how our incarceration system and legal system has evolved to try to be more humanitarian to people. So
034it was very interesting. And then, you know, we had a lot of conversations with the public about, you know, how this happened at the high school, but it was more of a district-wide event, just blowing bubbles for autism. Students at almost all the schools went outside. They blew bubbles for autism just to show solidarity for the other students after school. So that's what happened recently these past few weeks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you both. We always get so much great information from these two representatives. I'm so proud of you guys. We learned so much from you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much about all
035the different buildings. Your enthusiasm and the details were really appreciated, and thank you so very much. Moving on to public comments at this time. This is for agenda items only, since there's so few people out here, I'm not going to read the whole blurb that I usually announce. Just, if you have any information, come to the microphone, state your name and address, if anyone is interested in speaking to us on agenda items only. Seeing no one, we will move on. The next item on the agenda is finance and operations uh mr smith any further updates uh we did have a couple questions come in a couple about the bids uh one that was a good question that came in was a tax levy incentive so i tried to provide information on that so if anyone
036has any questions just let me know thank you um our chairperson mr price on the finance well thank you operations committee thank you mr president the meeting met on april 8 25 at 6 pm length of the meeting was 45 minutes mr byers mr de la barca mr price miss sullivan was virtual dr gruccio and mr smith were the administrators attending transportation department mr smith gave an update on the search process for the transportation director position bus inspections and the new software rollout transponder food services department the committee discussed adding preschool to davenport reviewing financial and financial services and the new software rollout transfinder food services department the committee discussed adding preschool to davenport reviewing financial of the department and cooperative purchasing memberships for the district facilities department mr smith gave an update on the
037new fields at the high school and the status of preliminary referendum project list the committee also discussed the status of the waste removal bid and several custodial concerns at davenport business office has been working on the 2025-26 budget preparing for the year end mr smith reviewed several items on the agenda for approval including the monthly reports various additional funding for the school district the tuition and home instruction contracts the non-public school service agreement professional service contracts asset disposals a contract renewal for copiers authorization to pre-bid the underground drainage repair bid and the appointment of a risk management consultant it's a lot of things we had a lot of stuff happening the committee discussed the 2025-2026 budget including the following topics the tax levy incentive aid proposed by the njdoe district is not pursuing appropriations areas
038appropriation areas that were reviewed for possible savings since the preliminary budget was approved benefits of maintaining the effective school solutions program and changes in the budget budgeted personnel that are being explored are being explored to limit the number of job losses in the budget the committee recommends moving forward with the action with the next times discussed um recommendations next time date and place of the meeting may 6 2025 6 p.m at the board office topics to be discussed at that time will be bid and rfp rewards and that concludes my report thank you mr president thank you mr price at this time we need a motion to approve finance item 8.2 motion is there a second any discussion quick question mr president i go mr seppi um regarding uh item 6a could we just elaborate
039on that for the public is that okay with you for the incentive aid yes so the the state the doe released a tax levy uh incentive uh aid that districts could apply for uh it's based on if you're under your local fair share and if you're below adequacy you could apply for this aid but it's five percent of any additional tax levy that was raised so we set our preliminary budget uh that had the set tax levy and then the states that if you raise it again we'll give you five percent of that raise in state aid so our maximum amount we could have raised the tax levy would have been an additional 660 000 of that 31 000 would have been state aid 633 would have come from the taxpayers so it would have
040been another 0.78 percent increase on the levy that we would have had to raise in order to get 31 000 in the state aid uh so as a district we looked we didn't think that was reasonable uh we didn't that wasn't anything that we wanted to explore at this time thank you that that definitely satisfies my uh question wise decision from the finance committee thank you thank you mr sebi and mr smith any other questions seeing none roll call mr byers yes mrs gilbert floyd yes mr ireland yes mr price yes mr sepi yes mrs sullivan yes mrs sloggy yes ms hyman yes and mr delabar yes we need a motion for finance items number 8.3 through 8.25 mr price oh second i'll second mr buyers any discussion vocal please mr byers with the exception
041of uh item r299 my own reimbursement i say yes to everything i abstain from the r299 my own reimbursement i say yes to everything i abstain from the r299 my own reimbursement i say yes to everything i abstain from the that one mrs gilbert floyd yes mr ireland yes mr price yes mr sepi yes mrs sullivan yes mrs sloggy yes ms hyman yes and mr delgar yes moving on to curriculum there's maz any further updates uh mrs gupher floyd chairperson chairperson of the committee please good evening everyone yeah everybody about there okay good let's make sure everybody's up so you can hear this wonderful report equally anticipating your report yes i know so the committee at the curriculum committee we met on april 8th 2025 at 7 o'clock pm the length of the meeting was
042one hour and 10 minutes the board members that were in its attendance were myself mrs salagi and mr delabarca administrators that were attendance and attendance at the meeting were miss uh lily moss dr kimberly ruchio and miss karugno the high school principal subjects that were discussed field trips professional development and school performance report presentation presentation was shared with the committee the committee discussed policy 2520 which was instructional supplies the committee was updated on the talent time pilot from mrs karugno the committee uh we did request for additional data from the high school principal and the committee also discussed suis tropique questionability and Joseph rubin lecturing the timetables of the committee and notes on the classroom experience learning and instruction biggs and sports andational activities curriculum school and will continue to review the proposal for the
0432526 school year mrs. mark miss small shared updates on the budget and committee work specifically around kindergarten and behavior also discussed was the high impact tutoring grant and the input and implementation was also revisited possible items for our next upcoming meeting will be the talent time talent time update from the high school and also continued updates on curriculum and instructional materials and our next meeting will take place on May 6 2025 at Central administration offices at 7 o'clock p.m. Thank You mrs. Gilbert Floyd we need a motion to please for curriculum items 9.2 through 9.3 mr. price and the second and the discussion roll call please mr. Byers yes this is Gilbert Floyd yes mr. Ireland yes mr. price yes mr. Sepe yes mrs. Sullivan yes mrs. loggy yes miss Hyman yes mr. Delbar yes
044at this time we have policy committee report mr. West any further updates I do not mr. president our chairperson mr. Ireland please out your report thank you mr. president so for the policy meeting we met on Tuesday April 8th at 5 p.m. length of the meeting was roughly 30 minutes board members that attended were myself miss Hyman and we are concluded on technology bra nibb students received a 30 percent טוב you for your time and for taking time and Mr. Delbarca administrators attended were dr. Grucio and Mr. West others that attended was drug-free workplace, and policy 7435, alcohol beverages on school premises. Conclusions that were reached. Policy 2411, guidance counseling, was reviewed and discussed by the committee. Policy 2411 is mandated revision from Strauss-Essman. The policy revision states that all students should have access to
045adequate counseling services throughout the school year. Policy 2411 is up for one reading and waiting board approval. Policy 5460, high school graduation, was reviewed and discussed by the committee. Policy 5460 is a mandated revision from Strauss-Essman. The policy revision states a new graduation requirement for students regarding financial aid applications. Policy 5460 is up for one reading and waiting board approval. Policy and Regulation 2423, bilingual education, was reviewed and discussed by the committee. Policy and Regulation 2423 is a mandated replacement from Strauss-Essman. The policy and regulation replacement states what multi-learners need to meet from the New Jersey student learning standards to reach graduation and post-secondary success. Policy and Regulation 2423 is up for two readings and waiting board approval. Policy and Regulation 2431.4, prevention and treatment of sports-related concussions and head injuries, was reviewed and discussed
046by the committee. Policy and Regulation 2431.4 are mandated. The policy and regulation aligned with the most current recommendations developed by the CDC. Policy and Regulation 2431.4 is up for two readings and waiting board approval. Policy 7436, drug-free workplace, was reviewed and discussed by the committee. The committee agreed to merge Policy 7436 with Policy 7435, alcohol beverages, on school prep. The committee agreed to do that for the school premises, creating one policy. Policy 7436 is up for one reading and waiting board approval. My last one. Policy 7435, alcohol beverages on school premises, was reviewed and discussed by the committee. The committee agreed to abolish Policy 7435. Policy 7435 is up for one reading and waiting board approval. Our next meeting is Tuesday, May 6th at 5 p.m. Doctor, Mr. West, is there anything I messed up
047on? No, that was great. Thank you, Mr. Ireland. thank you sir and over to you mr uh dell barker thank you mr ireland at this time i need a motion for policy items 10.2 through 10.10 so moved is there a second second any discussion roll call please mr byers yes mrs gilbert floyd yes mr ireland yes mr price yes mr seppi yes mrs sullivan yes mrs sloggy yes miss hyman yes and mr dell barker yes this time a personnel committee dr charleston any updates i do not mr president may i have a motion to approve personnel items 11.2 to 11.5 mr price i'll make that motion any discussion roll call please mr byers yes this is gilbert floyd yes mr ireland yes mr price yes mr seppi yes mrs sullivan yes mrs sloggy yes miss
048hyman yes and mr del barco yes may i under new business may i have a motion for new business item 12.1 through 12.2 motion second second any discussion roll call please mr byers yes this is gilbert floyd yes mr ireland yes mr price yes mr seppi yes mrs sullivan yes mrs sloggy yes mrs hyman yes mr del barco yes mr seppi yes mrs sullivan yes mr hyman yes and mr del barco yes may i have a motion for old business item three 13.1 so made their second second ireland any discussion roll call please mr byers yes mrs gilbert floyd yes mr ireland yes mr price yes mr seppi yes mrs sullivan yes mrs sloggy yes mrs hyman abstain and mr delbar yes under communications we have our board calendar and the new jersey school boards
049association anything on their upcoming events mr ireland so mr delbarco i just have two things from the county perspective so we all talked we talked about the eighth grade dialogue that was up seeking it was uh truly remarkable and showcasing fantastic student participation and engagement anyone that hasn't been to one i encourage you as a board member please go to one it was uh very nice to see the students open up and answer some questions and it was highly um participated our school administrators and principals there was it was very it was very nice myself attended miss hyman mr del barca and mr byers if i left anybody out i apologize um our next county meeting is um may 8th at 6 pm at great bay country club it's going to be recognizing uh fellow
050board members who have achieved individual board milestones and for their certificates either if it's your certified board member a master board member and so on and so on so it's going to be a really exciting time to be here and i think you know if you have any questions about any of that i'm happy to be here any questions about anything that you've already put in for it come on now that's all i have mr delbarco thank you very much let's see um we do have nothing else we have open to the public now at this time this is for any item of discussion you're open to the public may come to forward please and state your name and adjust and uh at this time the mic is open if anyone is interested yes ma'am
051please i'm a resident um i've been coming to the last couple of board meetings I didn't know that. Barbara McCoskey, resident of VHT. Usually when somebody comes up here, you have something to hear that's negative. I'm going to talk to you about some positive things. When coming to the last two board meetings, last few board meetings, I was an educator. I'm a retired educator, 38 years. When I look at Superintendent Gruccio's report and look at those sore children, makes me miss what I was doing. But the reason I'm coming up is to just say I'm very impressed. I'm very impressed with these young people up here. Great representation of the children in our school district. I'm also very impressed with and appreciate what I saw the last meeting and this meeting, where we are acknowledging
052Black History Month. We are acknowledging Women's History Month. And I'm hearing from these young people that children are learning about the Holocaust. So I want to say congratulations. Job well done. Thank you very much. Much appreciated. Thank you very much. Anyone else from the public at this time? No one else from the public at this time? Thank you very much for being here. We appreciate your attendance. At this time, are there any board members who would like to say any comments? I would just like to remind everyone that on May 1st at the Community Center at 7 o'clock p.m., the Greater A. Carpenter Township Historical Society is having a presentation on the Outlying Schools, and the school's history here at A. Carpenter Township. And I'm honored to be the moderator for that event, so it
053would be nice to have a group of people. It's going to be a discussion regarding what the history has been like, what the schools were like. And those of you who may not remember Outlying Schools, but we had eight Outlying Schools at one time. And at one time I was principal of those eight schools, so I had some interesting comments to make that evening. So it would be nice to have everybody there. 7 o'clock at the Community Center on May 1st. A reminder about strategic planning on April 30th at 6 o'clock at the high school. And a reminder that the budget will be presented to the public on April 29th. Is there any other? Yes, go ahead, Mrs. Gilbert-Floyd. I was just going to say that I know we don't go back and forth with
054members of the community that come up to the microphone, but I'd just like to say thank you for your service. I know, you know, 38 years in education is hats off to you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And, oh, no, that's, I mean, really, it's, I'm in education as well, so I know you're doing, you did a great work. And just to thank you because we, whether it's a concern, whether it's a compliment or what have you, the board welcomes, we welcome everything with, you know, good feedback, whatever it is. But it was very refreshing tonight to have someone come and just acknowledge that Agra River Township does celebrate, celebrate everyone, that we're diverse, you know, inclusive and equitable district. At least that's where, you know, that's our, where we're going. And
055so that goes along with our motto. So just want to say thank you for, just thank you. I second that motion again. Again, thank you for being with us. We appreciate it. And thank you for your great career. Any other comments from board members? May I have a motion for adjournment? Motion. Second. All in favor? Aye. Anyone opposed? Thank you very much. Thank you, audience, for being with us tonight.