001y I think they were all special meetings two of them were at least and then you have the a one I didn't drop anything there must have been Melle trying to sabotage you without doubt live then I'll call the meeting to order at 6:46 Al to the of the United States of America and to the for it stands Nation indivisible andice M all here M here Mr Golden here Mr Juliano here Mr Jones I will motion second following meeting we have August 15th special meeting August 16th a special meeting followed by August 16th our regular the 23rd of August is a special meeting and the 14th is a special meeting moot second yeah all those in favor I oppos orain all right can I have a motion and second to go executive session to discuss
002school security and litigation motion second we're going to go in at 6:48 we'll give it a second Tom have to come shut us down let's see if he heard me listen this SLE we should just buy like [Music] A10 don't hold [Music] out there how are you how are [Music] you first me to do [Music] s for [Music] for know okay h back already [Music] prepared I can 7 so ready to pick back up uh so we've already opened the meeting for an executive session prior so we'll be picking up uh where we had left off so I believe we do not have any presentations um so we're going to have public comments for agenda items only um if anybody doesn't have anything on the agenda we have another public comment section at the end
003of the meeting so um this is for agenda items only can I have a motion and in to open the meeting to the public for discussion of agenda items only second have a motion second to close second apprciate that um just to just to update the board of the first first few weeks of school the first thing that was on my mind was for this weekend was to come in and pass truck get how handled the rain how many trash cans we needed to catch the leaks but he said build H up very well very happy the a didn't get calls over the weekend that something alarms were going off and me when he uh checked in with the custodians morning with the buildings uh the roofs did well it was a lot of rain
004so wouldn't get worried about that uh when they with the uh with the kids comeing back I I have to tell you it's it's always it's always a fun time those of you that work in schools that electricity that you get in the first week of September and the coolest thing is walking down the hallways on day two and it feels like it's November already teachers are teaching kids are learning it feels like everybody's in the groove right down to the gate uh everybody has a little bit of a bounce in their step that that they haven't gotten uh exhausted yet uh so it it it's a it was impressive in both schools just to walk the hallways and and it really did feel like it was the midd of the First Market Per um
005the mandatory stuff is done for September they there aren't drills on the agenda they'll be on October SE drills but the mandatory drills were done we we unfortunately had to do a real drill second second day of school and everything went well the procedures and processes did did exactly what they were supposed to do medical emergency and can very very well and uh from a staffing perspective uh we are we were 12 hours ago just one certified staff member away from being fully staffed we are still desperately searching forl teacher postings are out we're not getting any resumes in we had a candidate and and they pulled out right before school started um today we did get a resignation from new specialist at the middle school so we thought we were almost done and now
006we need now we're still looking for two but we're getting there but overall a good start ship is out of the and Miss has been testing on the ESL tests and everything so she can administer those in the of ESL and we have a couple programs that are being used in of having that are we reaching out to on that to see if there's anybody that's getting close to graduating or I know Dina has talked to the county office uh to getting getting input so they have a little further reach so they have those contacts you know who's in the pipeline that could be emergency certified or is in the process of certification y so as Dr said no ST security drills for our agenda they will be on the October agenda because we're always
007a month behind so our September drills will be um on the October agenda we actually did just have our bus evacuations at the middle school um yesterday and we'll do actually K will be in the middle of October get those plus evacuation done and then we'll do another one the spring monthly reports were uploaded to the portal as far as I'm aware we don't have any uh Hy incident reports to report um so it's been a really great start to this school year uh discussion items um we have to do first reading on the following policies and bylaws and I believe Dr pelli sent you guys a clean version and an unedited an edited version to show you where those details were changed so can I have a motion in a second then for that
008first reading motion second anybody have any questions or concerns on [Music] yes um in the sense that um I the governor came in andang it's really that they can use their sickly essentially for for re no personal sickness or disability or if you were quarantining now it's expanded to um several other things like there's bement um that sick Le can be used for um their for your trial caring for your trial family member things like that so really just expanded the uses of any questions all right Mrs or yes Mr Jones Mrs hel yes M Juliano yes M Hannah yes Mr Davis yes M alen yes Mrs re yes Mr Golden yes all right 10 G2 is just to acknowledge that the following names were certified as school volunteers through the advance program in September
009so those lists have been updated and the schools have Google Document correct so that's an Ever Changing updating so the schools have access to that can I have a motion in a second to approve that motion second questions they're not doing them in person remember Dr had sent an email so now they're just they're doing it um because then we can get more it become kind of crazy to have that prob everybody in and then things come up events come up and it's we're trying to all this stuff and so it's essentially they're still getting the same training it's not that in person um do we have to change the policy on that no I read policy before to make sure that everything I did it a few years I just remember exactly the wayed
010okay yeah it never mentioned an iners nice catch any other questions all those in favor I opposed or obain H is just for field trips we have our preschoolers going to the West berland Firehouse that they go to um pretty much every year so they'll be taking a few buses over there our Mini Bus and two fullsize buses can I have a motion a second second questions M hel yes M Hannah yes M or yes Mr Jones M Julian Mr Davis yes M alen yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Golden yes perfect 11a is personel as you can see we have quite a few um instructional assistants a science teacher who is starting um on Monday which will be great um special teacher some care support staff we have some pretty high numbers it's been a
011really big interest in The CARE program before and after school uh so we had to bring on a few extra staff members um and substitute custodian so I have a motion a second first any questions M julana yes Mr Jones M yes Mr yes M Hannah yes Mr Davis yes M alen yes Mr Reed yes Mr Golden yes perfect thank you 11b is to approve um C positions for the 2324 school year um throughout the year we'll have more that pop up for you know basketball and other events um the s in you'll see is to be determined we are pretty close to the BTA ratifying their um contract which in turn will then come to us for approval at the board level um so rather than put the current siphons in we're proving that
012these people can assume the duties and we will put the revised uh Sion amounts in that way Jody's not doing contracts and then contracts again you know with different amounts so um these people are actually well into quite a few of these activities already so now it's formal can I have a motion in a second motion any questions yes um not that it matters but is Mr coachi uh the boys or the girls here I think it's I think you are right um and I know they do a lot of coed stuff too because some teams don't have enough boys or girls so there are a couple teams that they play but I will double check so we have it um correct for the minute I thought he was the girl I'll tomorrow any other
013questions Mr Jones yes Mrs Helm yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Hond yes M Juliana yes M yes Mrs Alan yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Gold yes uh C is to accept uh Chris Hannon to participate in a field placement experience at the middle school with coach Kelly for the fall 23 semester he attends cam County College can I have a motion a second motion second questions all those in favor oppos or D is to accept Emma Bell to particip in the field placement experience also at the middle school with parla biss for one day in the fall 2023 she also attends Camy County College and I have a motion second nice to see our former students back here all in favor I opposed or obain 11 e is um to approve the following staff members
014as mentors um as some of you probably know when you have a a new teacher they have to have The Mentor in order to get certain markers met to be able to get their certification their standard certification can I have a motion a second Mo second any questions Mr Jones mrma yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Hannah yes Mrs R yes Mrs Juliano yes Mrs Allen yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Golden yes all right f is just to um as Dr Petri said to accept the resignation with regret of Amanda Leonard she's our RTI teacher she's a reading specialist um effective November 28 2023 have a motion a second any questions all those in favor opposed orate right J is to approve this submission of the Berlin Township superintendent of schools contract to the executive county
015superintendent of schools for County offic review and approval can I have a motion in a second motion second any questions once this is approved I'll do the certified minutes tomorrow morning I'll send it right over to the county office um expressing an urgency for them to review and approve um we can set special meeting Mrs Julian yes Mr Jones Mrs Helmont yes Mrs yes Mrs H yes Mr Davis yes Mrs alen y Mrs re yes Mr Golden yes all right 13 a through D is the financial report for the month of July 2023 um no line item has been overextended in violation of njac 623a 1610 C3 sufficient funds are available to meet the financial obligations for the remainder of the year the treasurer and secretary's reports are in agreement for the month of July
016um there's no changes in anticipated Revenue amounts or sources can I have a motion in a second second any questions Mr Jes yes Mrs H yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Hann yes Mrs Juliano yes Mrs R yes M Alan yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Golden yes 13 e is to approve payment bills our finance committee went ahead and reviewed all those and signed all of them and there were a lot of them because have since August 16 so probably need a rest on hand can I have a motion a second to approve the bill Pat 52 motion second any questions Mrs Hannah yes Mrs R yes Mrs Juliana yes Mrs hel yes Mr Jones yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Allen yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Goldman yes f is to approve the September 2023 listing
017for source for teachers the rates are listed on the agenda can I have a motion in a second any questions all those in favor I oppose 13g is to approve the uh 2023 24 cafeteria dispersements for the month of August um in the amount of $2,490 can I have a motion in a second any questions Mr Jones yes Mrs Helma yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Hannah M yes M Juliano yes M Allen yes M Reed yes Mr Golden yes 13 each is to approve the 2324 care dispersements for the month of August 2023 in the amount of $1,268 57 cents can I have a motion a second any questions Mr hel yes Mr TN yes M orente yes Mr Jones yes M yes Mr Davis yes Mrs Allen yes Mrs re yes Mr Golden yes
01813 I is to approve travel and professional development for the following staff memb as you'll see the one is no charge and the other is a $79 charge um most of these come out of title two for professional development can I have a motion a second second Mrs Juliana yes Mr Jes M Mrs R yes Mrs Hanah yes Mr Davis yes Mrs alen yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Goldman yes 13 J is to approve our out of District tuition contracts for 2324 um you'll see a long long list here these have all been budgeted with the exception of spring uh NOP Springville Elementary was there is another one I don't think it's on here um we're going to have one that comes through which was not budgeted however we did have a student leave um
019so it does kind of watch which is helpful to the budget so can I have a motion in a second to approve these it over there any questions Mr Jun Mrs hel yes Mr Davis yes Mrs H yes M Juliana yes m r yes M Alan yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Golden yes 13k is to approve the 2324 agreement for the provision of instruction with the Brookfield Educational Services Program the rate is $464 per hour and there are two following two students who are receiving Services through there one has actually already been released and is back um the other one is still in the program can I have a motion in a second any questions Mrs H sorry sorry thank you Mrs or yes Mrs Juliana yes Mrs yes Mr J Mr Davis yes Mr
020yes Mr yes Mr Gold yes 13 L is to approve the interlocal services agreement between the Berlin bough Board of Education and Berlin Township Board of Education this is for a behaviorist and an ABA for the 23 24 school year we share this individual um with brand they do a lot of services with our autism program and some of our other PSD and things of that nature it's much better to share that service since we don't need someone 100% of the time and and neither do they so can I have a motion a second motion second any questions M Mr Jones yes Mrs hel yes Mrs Juliana yes Mrs H Mr Davis yes M yes M re yes Mr Golden yes 13m is just to approve the tuition contract with uh Camy County Technical Schools
021for our High School Pearland Township residents that attend there the total cost is $221,700 it was was budgeted they send me a whole list of who they anticipate when it's budget time and that's all in the budget so I have a motion a second um Mr Jones yes Mrs Helo yes Mr Davis yes Mrs H yes Mr R yes Mr julan yes M Alan yes Mrs re yes Mr Golden yes n 13n is to approve the 2324 tuition contract with Burlington County Institute of Technology total cost is $3,732 for the tuition a $7,600 out of County fee um this was not budgeted this is a high school student that is going over there it is our responsibility um so we will why is it our responsibility because there are high school student and they're going
022for just like C County ccts do not correct okay correct um can I have a motion and second they are out the same with um some of our special students that go to Burlington County Special Services um that's a new placement for Lego high school students they we've never had our um gen population go there but ler County Special Services Burlington County Special Services they also have out of County Fe for our for some of our special Ms can I have a motion a second on that second um any question any other questions Mrs Juliano yes Mr Jones yes Mrs Helma yes Mrs or yes Mrs Hannah yes Mr Davis yes Miss Alan yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Gold yes 13 O is to approve the standard operations manual for business office procedures we review
023and approve this every year every other year um it is a q sacki indicator um as well so I reviewed it we don't have any changes um it was uploaded to the board portal so I have a motion a second second any questions Mr Jones Mrs hel yes Mr Davis yes Mr Tana yes M Juliano yes M yes M alen yes Mrs Reed yes Mr Golden yes I don't have any old business um do we have any new business negotiations as I said um I believe the DCA is close to ratification um once they do that we'll be able to approve and then we'll start the process of um you know discussing retro and things of that nature and set that up uh btps we're not there yet um we will be going into negotiations
024with them in January or February as their contract expires uh 20 jun3 2024 finance committee um we have two new members Kayla and Stacy Jo on our finance committee along with Rebecca um we went over the budget report I explained a little bit about what they'll see every single month um still in July because we have a lot of Grant close out so once I can get all that done and get things paid tonight I'll be able to roll into August August and September they'll probably have my financials both coming in in October um I kind of give them a revenue report um I just told them we're closing out our grants um the 20 fiscal year 24 Ida Grant has been approved um our ESA Grant with Title One title two title 4 they
025are there was a minor change they requested I went ahead and did that so that should be approved I'll start drawing down monthly reimbursements starting next week um a high-intensity tutoring Grant has been submitted it is a competitive Grant so we're not sure that we'll actually receive those funds because we're it's geared towards grades three and four um but we're already receiving some improvement funds through Title One for a school um in Improvement for grade three which is a sizable amount I don't know we'll get it um so I'll just keep everybody posted and did Business Review I just went over some of our excess Surplus summer projects um Eisenhower Hall flooring was replaced and it's beautiful um JFK and Eisenhower fire alarm plant panels are replaced the element the Kennedy and Eisenhower PA systems
026were replaced um in progress we have the Eisenhower gym and allpurpose room and JFK allpurpose room sound systems are in progress that'll be done this year um we're working with an engineer to produce plans for our JFK nurse staff lounge and guidance office hbac upgrade um that's on a separate thing than the rest of our system so it's due for an upgrade and then we'll also be hoping to get a purchase order in for a replacement school bus in the next week or so um transportation of rcps students has been going very well and that uh extra route at can be helped to kind of lessen the amount of kids on some of those routes with fourth grade headed back over there last year our bus has passed the annual fall safety inspections by the
027state of New Jersey the Motor Vehicle Commission our next round is in March and it's just about state report season so ASA report the rprs reports I will be busy till December so that was it on finance um school boards Association I don't have anything have you seen anything from over from New Jersey school boards um and services um on October 17th we're having a College and Career night at Candy County College for high school students there'll be representation from uh KY County Technical School and the military as well there'll be help there to um called people with applying to colleges as well as FASA uh a few colleges will be participating as well an email went out to principles and super that was I know I don't have a lot but I did um
028they did introduce their new staff board meeting um they're also doing a alumni recognition program that they're going to give us more details on later on um Miss cge in charge of it they were having like pictures from the alumni of people like we had I know we had an NFL player and there was a state trooper and St on the walls of at over Brook so they're trying to get that up and running and put a little bit more into it that back to school night there were a lot more people I noticed this year than other years in the past which I thought that looked really promising other than they do have a little bit higher populations maybe that's why too um they there are a few open positions still one of the
029ones at least that they mentioned in the board me unfortunately is a school nurse so they have their Elementary nurses doing kind of um because they have to set up any nurses that want school nurse they're looking for they're looking for I think a nurse and like a FL or something out um and there's no date that I've seen yet for the site council meeting however any parents that any people that have kids at over I strongly recommend get involv coun you'll learn so much more about the school that way but as soon as I okay um I don't think there's one school board see much come AC all right um so now we will open the meeting to public comments for public not appearing on the agenda if you want to go over the
030specs on that just so everybody's aware uh so the public is reminded that they should attempt to resolve problems or complaints through initial contact of the staff member or members involved therein and the chief School administrator prior to petitioning the Board of Education complaint should only be brought to the board at after the appropriate School staff have had a reasonable opportunity to resolve the problem at the employee level a statement should be limited to the topics to be addressed public participants would be governed by the following rules there's a lot there in summary um it's uh well when you come up you have to announce uh your name and where you live um you must be recognized by the presiding officer uh your statements will be limited to five minutes no participant may speak more
031than once on the same topic um and if anything that you say is inappropriate or runs too long you may be interrupted or warn to stop and so forth um I saw a lot of you taking up this I'm sure you've read through most of these already motion to open to oh I'm sorry motion a second to open meeting to the public for discussion of subject I work so hard where I stand wherever you like wherever you're comfortable you can sit stand just again state your name and address for me please all right Jennifer Brennan address is 326 Cleveland right here in so I wanted to here to talk about my daughter tonight and that she's at the hands of her school administrators Mar the completion of her her sixth grade year in 2022 my
032daughter was sent to the hospital for crisis this led to a 22-day stay in hospital during her stay we learned that my daughter was bullied so frequently and so severely it caused her to self harm and have thoughts of suicide this well was also the same year that she was inducted to the National Fior Honor Society upon my daughter's release to an outpatient program we reached out to the child study team requesting an evaluation for an IEP based on her mental health status and previously existing learning disabilities our request for evation was denied I do believe this was a violation of her rights the thought of returning to the middle school where her bullies went unchecked and with no plan in place was not an option for her we withdrew my daughter from school and
033chose to home school where we figured out a better solution after working with reformed care uh the fso of campon County and campon County CMO we made the decision to reenroll my daughter in school in an attempt to obtain the 504 and subsequently an iup during this time my daughter developed what is known as conversion disorder or functional neurological disorder um fnd as for sure is mostly caused by trauma and is considered a cross between psychiatric and neurological disorder that mostly the nervous system symptoms can range from motor ticks non-tic seizures drop attacks full or partial body paralysis loss of speech sensory sensitivity and more the development of the f&d brought the 5 Hour 4 meeting that we had to a Hal with a few few key factors that needed to be addressed the safe
034space for her to access at any time and clearing of the classroom should she have one of these episodes it was later determined that we needed an I um and appropriate evaluations our first meeting for that was in March of this year 2020 grade in March homebound instruction was also approved for my daughter a teacher to provide home homebound instruction was not found until May 19th homebound was authorized through July to accommodate sming that had not been provided since my initial application back in February we worked through the summer to participate in and obtain the evaluations that the job study team required eligibility was determined on July 10th and it was agreed that my daughter need to be placed out of District in a more appropriate program we're now nearly a month into the 23
03524 school year and placement has not been found my daughter continues to be on homeown instruction violating her rights to the least restrictive environment education despite being aware of the added stress and anxiety this causes and the resulting f& episodes the administration fails to provide a more environment have requested to tour and consider countless schools within our area but this district has turned them all down and turned us away yet I keep being asked to find more schools to consider I feel like my requests fall on De years or they just don't get answered the district has failed to provide curriculum for the end of seventh grade year as well as the start of the here continued attempts by my attorney with the district's attorney been unsuccessful and shut down um so at this point
036I ask I know a lot of you have children within this system or had children within this system or your Educators and is this the Legacy that you want to leave behind is this okay with you are you aware of what's going on and all the laws and the rights that are being violated by keep my are AB thank you second [Music] um so we're going to go into executive session right now um for uh student matters um can I just say something we acknowledge that you sure can obviously the the board president will take that lead um the board president will take that lead for sure and we can just acknowledge generally however though they don't engage there needs to be research obviously this is just coming to them now so that is how
037the procedure will work somebody will reach out to you from the district you did you did a good job I know that I appreciate it I I really do appreciate your time and I understand that you know you can't comment right now so but I appreciate you taking absolutely you've been heard yes so we will go into executive session we will not come out and take any action obviously we definitely need to they need to speak to administrators or whatever may they um get all the facts for all sign go from there um go executive we're not going to have any AC afterwards we're going to join a Jour you can certainly stay here if you'd like or you can certainly go home and can I ask a question Jeff what would you like to
038happen um just so we kind of have an idea of what because you've been involved in all that right um there there's really two sticking points um because of the f& episodes and their unpredictability um I would like one to one um conly medically trained I think that really comes down to the legality of it they don't require any medication just time um and I would just like a proper placement she is on the Spectrum but her grades are very good um so I know it does present a difficulty in finding the type of school that can treat those symptoms where she gets the education she needs but also the emotional social support and you wouldn't want her to stay in the district with a one one a or unfortunately no um even being here
039is pretty traumatic um we've been in this building a few times with some evaluations thought of coming here can trigger an episode for her I wish it wasn't that way I've been in this district for I moved here in 99 I've moved several times years and chosen to stay in District because I believe in our town and our schools second would [Music] face hard [Music] all right just shoot me a text um and then we'll get you out of here know I it up earlier but [Applause] all right we are live so we're going to motion a second to adjourn the meeting please motion 8:21 have a great night I will be in touch with everybody regarding special meeting [Music] for